I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.