Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.