I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

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

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.