I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam.
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
I get a great high from writing.
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
We talk so much about one's rights. . . so little about what is actually right.
When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met. '