I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

Different people work different ways.

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.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.