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You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.