When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.