I never write with particular actors in mind.

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.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

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.