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

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

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

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.

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

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.