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 associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.