Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.

Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.