I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.

Dreams do come true. But it will involve a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of studying.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.

The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.

We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.

To make one, there must be two.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough

What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.