In this day and age you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

A movie goes from several stages from idea to script. As you continue shooting you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do as I'm writing a movie is go through all those songs trying to find good songs for fights or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I love bad movies whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it or I wouldn't do it but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris like Alien had a lot of things that are similar although it's also got the horror element.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

I grew up in L.A. and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies but they are few and far between.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

There's more to life than movies.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

My sense is I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I don't think the competition's so rough within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.