I won't ever do e-mail.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

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.

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

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.