You Will Never Solve Poverty

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.

He's Famous For Being Obsessive About Details.

It's Very Frustrating [ To Work Under Director's Control], Not Just Because You're Getting Rejected Constantly, But Also Because You're At A Time In Your Life Where You Have An Enormous Amount Of Creative Energy, And There's No Way To Express It. That's Why A Lot Of People Get Into Drinking Or Drugs Or Whatever.

Fame Is Really Strange. One Day You're Not Famous, And Then The Next Day You Are, And The Odd Thing Is That You Know Intellectually That Nothing In The World Is Different. What Mattered To You Yesterday Are The Same Things That Matter Today, And The Rules All Still Apply - Yet Everyone Looks At You Differently.

Our Kids Are Growing Up With More Privilege Than We Had; That's True For Most Of My Friends In L.a. I Don't Know Any Actor Who Grew Up With Any Particular Privilege, So Everyone Wrestles With This. And I Think, A Lot Of Times, It's About Being Patient With Your Kids.