My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.