I like audiences to crane their necks.

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.