I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.