A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

Work hard at . . . something.

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

This isn't a letter, it's a gift.