I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings that are human beings.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)

Is this the part where i'm gonna dance.?

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.