You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.