The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

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.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.