Listen, Here's The Thing. If You Can't

I Didn't Grow Up With Great Privilege, Nor Did I Grow Up Wanting For Anything. I Was A Middle-class Kid And, Relative To The Rest Of The World, That's Great Wealth.

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 Love Shooting, When The Character Is Interesting And The Script Is Interesting, But The Research Beforehand Is Really Fun. The Whole Process Makes Me Anxious And Restless, And I Have Trouble Sleeping, Just Trying To Figure Out The Character.

Success Is Not Something I've Wrapped My Brain Around. If People Go To Those Movies, Then Yes, That's True, Big-time Success. If Not, It's Much Ado About Nothing.

I'm Always Cautious About Overstepping Any Boundaries. At The End Of The Day, It's A Director's Medium, And If They Don't Want To Hear From Me I Just Step Back.