At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.