No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.