It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.