Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

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.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

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

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.

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

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.