If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.