Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.

It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment." I feel like people go to movies for more than that.

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.