Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.
I prefer writing originals.
I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
