There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

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.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.