Occupation: Film Writer Birth: July 7, 1962
I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant..
As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart….
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous..
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to ….
Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do th….
If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre k….
Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create..
The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling.".
Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it..
What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to….
I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers..
Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great..