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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

As a writer, it's very difficult to just hand your script over to someone else, especially if you have to watch them hurt it, and that's when I decided I would direct my own work.

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don't call me.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.