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

Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.

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

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.

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

I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.

Casting is always subject to availabilities.