We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?