for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.