I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

We are products of time

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

We're waiting for a ship to come in that never went out.

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-