Sometimes People Can't Afford To Work For

When I Read A Story Or See Something Play Out In Front Of Me I Say, How Come Nobody's Made A Movie Or A Television Show Out Of This? This Is Something That Belongs In The Conversation. Certainly That's What Interests Me About A Project.

I Don't Write [screenplay Character] Biographies Beforehand. I Usually Go In Knowing Some Sequences: This Is Where I Want To Start, This Is Where I Want To End.

The Media In America Has Become So Cowed And Compromised.

I Figured Somebody Wrote A Story Who Had A Typewriter And I Thought That Movies Were Made By The Cowboys And That They Just Said, 'okay, You Fall Off The Horse This Time.

For Me The Writing, When I'm Going To Direct It Myself, Is Really Just The First Draft, And I Don't Change It Very Much; I Only Change It On Average About Two Lines Per Movie.