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.

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 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.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.