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.

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

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

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

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