When I Read A Story Or See

There Are Genres I Don't Care For, And I've Never Worked In Those Genres, And Then Sometimes There Are People That I Haven't Liked And I Haven't Worked For Those People. But If I Feel Like There's A Movie That I Would Like To Go See, I'll Jump Into It.

I Never Actually Do Rehearsals. That's One Of The Reasons That I Write Those Bios And If I Can Meet With The Actors I'll Meet Them Or Talk To Them On The Phone. What I Want Is For Them To Come On Set Knowing Their Lines And Knowing Who The Character Is.

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.

I Made It About A Three-day Weekend So People Wouldn't Have To Change Their Clothes A Lot. We Didn't Have An Art Department; We Didn't Have A Make-up Department.

But Compared To Writing A Novel, Where You Can Be God, I Did The Bay Of Pigs Invasion In Six Pages Once, And There Were 50,000 Guys With Boots That I Didn't Have To Pay, And All Those Extras; We Didn't Have To Pay Them.