Everything you have heard about the shower scene is true.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

He went to every fund-raising meeting vouching for a first-time feature director and first-time screenwriter. It was Phil who said, 'I believe in them; you need to trust me.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.