I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.