The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.

My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

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.