It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.