I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

I write from my stomach.

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'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

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

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) in "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.

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.