I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them..

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything..

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do..

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find ….

You're not always right. You're often wrong. But at least you're looking at it as objectively as you can with as much experience as you can in the mo….

The stand-up really helped because you know the feeling when something feels true, and you know the feeling when it feels false. You don't ever want ….

The good thing about being in advertising was a lot of the skills cross over: you have to be accountable for your jokes; you have to tell a story qui….

You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original script, it becomes his or her movie. Tha….

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway..

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader.

My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work….

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best di….

When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about your details. So, that takes a w….

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combi….

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure..

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also….

Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think ….

It's hard to hand a script to a director, there's no question about it. You've lived with these characters, you've started with a blank page, especia….

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at….