You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.