Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.