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.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.

I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to keep the machine moving. It was especially important to me to keep it moving and not be some kind of precious writer-director.