If We Listen To The Better Angels

If You Work At Something, You Get Better At It.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.

I Was Never That Much A Focus Of Interest That I Became A 'thing' At An Earlier Point In My Career. I'm Aware Of Having Become A 'thing' Now, Which Doesn't Give Me A Lot Of Pleasure.

The Only Sci-fi Movie That I've Ever Been Offered That, Had Circumstances Been Different, I Would Have Definitely Done, Was 'avatar.' And I Literally Couldn't Do It Because Of My Schedule. But Listening To James Cameron Talk About 'avatar' Was So Fascinating. Because He Literally Invented The World In His Mind - And It Literally Existed.

You Will Never Solve Poverty Without Solving Water And Sanitation.