The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

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.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.