Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

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.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

The essence of cinema is editing.