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I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.