I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.
I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?
The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.