Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It's not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

I think writing should be about change.

Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if you tried to separate them, you'd be missing something important and human.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.