I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.