I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.
Everybody's a filmmaker today.
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.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.