Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.