Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.