Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.