No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

big plans require big action

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.