No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.