I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

My look is a very individual look. I love Pink, but I don't really dress like Pink.

America will never ever be the same.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasnt such a big fan.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.