My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.