My Mother Is Very Short

The Twelve Chairs Is About The Same Thing. It's All About Money Or Love. We Know We Need Money, We Know We Have To Get Money, We Know We Have To Hurt Others To Get Money. But We Don't Know Until Maybe It's A Little Too Late In Life That Love Is The Most Important Thing. Love, Friendship, Affection, Bonhomie, Whatever. Those Are The Only Things That Really Count: To Love And Be Loved.

When I'm Writing A Script, I Don't Worry About Plot As Much As I Do About People. I Get To Know The Main Characters - What They Need, What They Want, What They Should Do. That's What Gets The Story Going. You Can't Just Have Action, You've Got To Find Out What The Characters Want. And Then They Must Grow, They Must Go Somewhere.

Creative People Should Always Be Striving, They Should Always Be Hungry, They Should Be Looking For The Next Place To Go.

I Started With [leo] Tolstoy And I Was Overwhelmed. Tolstoy Writes Like An Ocean, In Huge, Rolling Waves, And It Doesn't Look Like It Was Processed Through His Thinking. It Feels Very Natural. You Don't Question Whether Tolstoy's Right Or Wrong. His Philosophy Is Housed In Interrelating Characters, So It's Not Up For Grabs.

There's An Army Story In Me, And I Think There's A Wwii Brooks Film Somewhere.