What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.