L. A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.
You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.
I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.
Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I've written was work.
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.
When things aren't working out, screenwriters have a tendency to say, "Go do other things," but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.
