If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.