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.

Imagery is like music.

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

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.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.