I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.