If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

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.

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.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

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.

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.