My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.