You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

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

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

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

Different people work different ways.

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

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.