I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based ‘Snow...

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I’ve become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don’t pay a lot of attention...

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.

As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it’s too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.

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

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don’t go anywhere.

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

I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I’m being given, and I’m very happy for them. Hopefully, ‘Divergent’ will be the...

After ‘Divergent,’ I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, ‘We’re about to shoot ‘Ninja Turtles’ in three or...

I wouldn’t say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world...

I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film ‘Rusty Forkblade.’ It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There’s a false narrative that if...

That TV show, ‘After Thought,’ is really exciting. It’s a cross between ‘Inception’ and ‘CSI’ that I’m working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the ‘Twilight’ movies.

In ‘Snow White and the Hunstman,’ when we see them in the Dark Forest, you’re allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story...

‘Lord of the Rings’ was going on; like, my college years were the years of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ an awesome time to be in film school.

A script is a unique literary form, because it’s not the end product; it’s a blueprint. If you’re not thinking of that end product, there’s going to be a disconnect.

I loved ‘Star Wars’ as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ that trilogy felt like...

I didn’t 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.

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, ‘Hi, Mr. So-and-So,’ and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts....

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.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don’t. There’s a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of...