“Don’t tell me you want to be a writer….Just sit down and start writing….but if you’re going to write, you have to want to write. You can’t think that I’m going to be writing the great American novel. I’m going to write...
“There’s the kind of note that you get from somebody that’s paying you, and there’s the kind of notes that you’re getting somebody that’s not paying you. So the ones that are not paying you, you listen to. If you get the note from...
“Harry Dean Stanton… he lived on Mulholland Drive. His neighbors were Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando. He and Marlon Brando became very close friends. Everybody knew about Harry Dean’s philosophy of, there is no individual… we’re all...
“The trick is to always know what your next shot is. You don’t have to know what your shot is two shots from now, but you have to know what your next shot is so that when you do say cut, check the gate print, moving on, people know that you have the...
“I think I learned a really, really important lesson…. always give your audience what they expect…play to their perception, to their point of view and not your point of view and what you want to do. You’ve always got to think about your...
