Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.