No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

I prefer writing originals.

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 used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

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