Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie….

I remember when it was reported that I was going to do the film in this format, people were actually speculating, and I guess I understand it. They w….

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back..

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do..

Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And s….

Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very earl….

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions..

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God..

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character..

The good ideas will survive..

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie..

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening ….

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart..

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie..

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific ….

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a ….

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces….

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it….

But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany. The majority of them, especially on….

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue..

You can't write poetry on the computer..