My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.