I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Kindness is very soft but it creates the hardest bond.

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.