"Mostly, you write a script and someone’s gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of—not hundred but they get ten w…"

"I have gone to the set and you’re kind of around in this—it’s kind of combat writing when you do rewriting and …"

"Oh, I remember on Dave, I’d written a bad draft. I was on page 150 and climbing and I had no money then. ... I went h…"

"I think that it’s easy to give it away—give the definition of success away. Empower other people in determining…"

"Paul Guay (The Little Rascals, Liar Liar, Heartbreakers): For the first time, I heard actors saying my lines and my p…"

"Ed Solomon (Men in Black): The first screenplay I ever sold was something I’d written with Chris Matheson, my sometim…"

"I had a screenplay once where I was 90 pages in and I knew it was all over. I knew it was a disaster. And it was driv…"

"There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set—quite appropriately&m…"

"[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it—the whole action movie part of it might …"

"I moved into directing for a couple of reasons. ... Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the scree…"