I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later..

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching..

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that..

I worked for a lot of directors..

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises..

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write..

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting..

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application..

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - ….

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time..

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it..

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with ….

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing..

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write ….

Different people work different ways..

I prefer writing originals..

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do..

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell..

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies….

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice..

I love IMAX when it works right..