Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feed….

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made..

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini….

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one w….

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot..

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens..

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots..

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads beca….

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv..

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Stop shoulding on yourself.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself..

I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be both….

When it comes to asking for raise, you just have to do it in the right way. You may get a no, and that's fine, but ask and make sure you know when yo….