“With your drafts, be ruthless. What do you need? What can you toss away? And then read everything out loud. Because the way you read it versus the way it sounds… it’s a different experience and you catch things that you wouldn’t catch when you...
“Find something that you find interesting that will challenge you to keep going. Never get discouraged. I had 20 rejections. And if your dream is to be a writer, chase that dream. Don’t stop. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s over…Like a...
“It’s not how much money you have. It’s not what you’ve accomplished. It’s not the failures. Your character is everything. Everybody’s got a window of time when you’re relevant, and then your time ends and you’re out of...
“…and he said the difference between movies and television is with television. You should be able to turn off the picture and just listen to them talk. But with movies, you should be able to turn off the sound and watch it, because one’s visual and one is...
“Don’t write about the same thing that’s been written about a million times. There is so much virgin territory out there about film that hasn’t been explored. Get creative. And think about the stories you’d like to be able to tell and...
