If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.