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.

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 just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

You never know what people are going to go and see.

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

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.