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Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

I think with every writer there are two people there.

Writers are rememberers.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.