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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Campus ... brings back so many memories that I would ... have made.

A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.

I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.