One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

I didn't want my script to get too out of control like that. So I actually made it a point not to do stuff like that, to pretty - to keep it more sparse than it's been in the last few years, or the last decade.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.