For the brief time he was at NYU film school, he handed in some of Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet's work as his own. When he got it back with a "C" grade he decided to leave.
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good
movies the rest of my life. And maybe I'll make some clunkers, maybe
I'll make some winners, but I guess the way that I really feel is that
Magnolia (1999) is, for better or worse, the best movie I'll ever make.
