Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

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

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

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

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

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.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.