Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

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

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.