[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.