It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

I don't write pictures about tomatos that eat people. I write pictures about people who eat tomatos.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.