I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?