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

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

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