I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'