There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.