I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.