In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them but you can't really hate them.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning and I work until 4 or 5 and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up which is nice.

My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours pretty much without any breaks.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough I might be pretty good.

I mean if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times you got a pretty sorry existence.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.