I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.