I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night.
The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.
The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything.
My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.
The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.
It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.
Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
I'm not actually a big musical fan.
I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.
The difference between writing where you know where to draw the line and writing where you're being way too mean is whether you can tell that the writer is not talking to family or friends anymore. Generally, if you say something bad about somebody on stage, you need to say two bad things about yourself. A lot of times, I think I'm the worst person in the room.