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.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.