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

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

I loved her like silence looks black when you try to touch it. I don’t remember her name or what she looked like or what her voice sounded like or anything she’s ever said or...

Moments are words that need to be written.

I don’t think anything you’ve written is immortal as yet.

If you get a script and it’s really well written, that’s always exciting.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps – when I couldn’t get work, people weren’t interested in me or had written me off.

It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

I’ve really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn’t want to divulge things that were too private.

There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.