You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

It’s a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy (is) sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.