Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

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

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.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

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