You're a writer. Make it up.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.