Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.