Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

I like complicated characters.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.