Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.