Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.