I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.