If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.