I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

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

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.