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

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 want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.

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

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