Who you think you are is only a thought.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

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.