With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.
I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.
