L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.