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.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

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

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.