“When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.”

“When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.”

“The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.”

“I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.”

“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”

“Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.”

“I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.”

“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”

“When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.”