I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

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

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

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

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.