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

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

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

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.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.