I love IMAX when it works right.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

I worked for a lot of directors.