I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.