The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

I don't think good films have messages.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.