The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.