I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.