I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

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.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.