Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.