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?

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

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.

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.

People love that monkey torture.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.