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Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.