I have control issues. For sure, no question.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."