I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

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.

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

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."