On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.