Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

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.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.