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

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

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

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

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.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.