People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.