I worked for a lot of directors.

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

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

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

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.