Occupation: Screenwriter Birth: March 10, 1953
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment..
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside..
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done..
A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched..
I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brav….
It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling ….
If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone el….
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know..
United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of ….
The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of d….
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow..
I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired fr….
If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actual….
There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always..
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you lea….
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me..
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception..
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t..
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers..
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world..
If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how….