I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

Work on nothing less than epic scale

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

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.