If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.