Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.