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You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.