I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.