All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

The national team comes before everything.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.