"[voiceover] I should have gone in. I'm such a chicken. I should have kissed her. I should go knock on her door and ju…"

"You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?"

"I'd wanna let the movie exist, rather than be artificially plot-driven."

"[voiceover] Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier my hair wouldn't be falli…"

"What the hell do you need binoculars for?!"

"I have to go right home. I know how to finish the script now. It ends with Kaufman driving home after his lunch with …"

"You are what you love, not what loves you, I decided that a long time ago."

"[delighted] I got shot. Isn't that fucked up?"

"McKee says we all have to realize we write in a genre, so we must find originality within that genre. Did you know th…"

"I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming t…"