“I was flying from Los Angeles to New York and I decided to take the script with me and make a decision before I landed. I read it three times on the plane. I said to myself… This is funny, and funny is what I should be doing.”
“I have a maxim about the film business I have kept in my head for my whole career. ‘You don’t know if a film is any good until at least ten years after its release.'”
“During the writing, I learned that the best way to adapt a story for a movie was to follow the course of a failed marriage: fidelity, transgression, divorce. Fidelity: You stay true to the original story at all costs. Transgression: You slip a bit and write something that works but ‘cheats’ on the original story. Divorce: You finally separate from the original and let the screenplay be what it wants to be.”
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