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

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

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.

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

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'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

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