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

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

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.

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.

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

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.