We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.