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American writer and director
Turned down the offer to adapt "The Da Vinci Code".
Has written two screenplays where Harrison Ford was offered a role: Robert Wakefield in Traffic (which went to Michael Douglas ) and Bob Barnes in Syriana (which George Clooney won the Oscar).
He has a son and a daughter from his relationship with actress Michael McCraine.
His wife Minnie is a great-granddaughter of Henry Morgan Tilford, a founder of the Standard Oil Company (portrayed as "H.M. Tilford" in There Will Be Blood .
Has directed one Oscar-winning performance: George Clooney in Syriana .
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more,terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with,the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up,in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the,Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine,years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
