I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me..

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What a….

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by..

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 w….

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day..

There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you….

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said….

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean..

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democ….

It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester s….

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. B….

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe ….

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts dependin….

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book..

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's l….

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do ….

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know a….

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He li….

We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once ….

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish….

As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genr….