There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

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.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

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

I write from my stomach.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.