You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.