Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

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.

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