I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.
I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.
Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.
I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.
It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.