I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed.

It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around.

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

Abandoning your true self amounts to suicide except that it is less dramatic. Don't commit suicide so that you may appease some folks...

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.