I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

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

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

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

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