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

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.

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

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

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.

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