Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

My films do very well on home video.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

Effort is grossly underrated.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.