There’s A Lot For Screenwriters To Steal

I'll Rebel Against Powers And Principalities, All The Time. Always, I Will.

You Have To Be A Brat In Order To Carve Out Your Parameters, And You Have To Be A Monster To Anyone Who Gets In Your Way. But Sometimes It's Difficult To Know When That's Necessary And When You're Just Being A Baby, Throwing Your Rattle From The Cage.

Screenwriting Is Like Ironing. You Move Forward A Little Bit And Go Back And Smooth Things Out.

I Don't Miss Scenes At All The Way That I Used To Miss Them When I Was Younger Making A Film. It's Actually Quite Fun To Get Rid Of Them Now.

It's So Hard To Do Anything That Doesn't Owe Some Kind Of Debt To What Stanley Kubrick Did With Music In Movies. Inevitably, You're Going To End Up Doing Something That He's Probably Already Done Before. It Always Seem Like We're Falling Behind Whatever He Came Up With. "singin' In The Rain" (1952) In "a Clockwork Orange" (1971) - That Was The First Time I Became So Aware Of Music In Movies. So No Matter How Hard You Try To Do Something New, You're Always Following Behind.