I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.