A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.