Writer

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.

I prefer writing originals.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.