As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

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

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

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.