It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

I would love to be on Broadway!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.