Your Own Ego Is The Only Trap

I Don't Think Screenplay Writing Is The Same As Writing - I Mean, I Think It's Blueprinting.

We Make Too Much Of The Good And Too Much Of The Bad.

Words Don't Tell You What People Are Thinking. Rarely Do We Use Words To Really Tell. We Use Words To Sell People Or To Convince People Or To Make Them Admire Us. It's All Disguise. It's All Hidden -- A Secret Language.

People Have Asked Me Throughout The Years Which Directors Have Influenced Me. I Don't Know Their Names, Because I Was Mostly Influenced When I'd See A Film And Think, "man, I Want To Be Sure To Never Do Anything Like That." So I Never Learned Their Names. It Wasn't A Matter Of Copying Or Emulating Somebody I Admired. It Was Getting Rid Of A Lot Of Stuff.

[the Player Is] Not A Truthful Indictment Of Hollywood. It's Much Uglier Than I Portrayed It, But Nobody Would've Been Interested If I'd Shown Just How Sadistic, Cruel And Self-orientated It Is.