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.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

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.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.