Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.