If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors do want to work with me and I'm very grateful for that, but you never know. I could write parts for them that they don't want to play and then all of the sudden they don't want to work with you that much.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.