My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.