The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.