Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I write from my stomach.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn't truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess I don't see people change ninety or a hundred degrees. I see them change in very small increments. I think it's just a monitor I might have on myself as a writer to not make any false scenes.