Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I write from my stomach.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.