“For those of you who are sitting there… waiting for that opportunity to come to you, you’ve got to let your intention be known. Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there and ask for what you want. Get out there. You’d be surprised. And...
“Putting yourself on the page is what’s going to make your writing special. You know, there’s billions of screenplays and now with the self-publishing world, so many novels out there. So how do you individuate your book, your screenplay? Where it...
“I was working out the schedule for Into the Woods, and I sat Meryl [Streep] down. I said, ‘Meryl, I’m thinking that I’ll bring in the cast, we’ll work for about three weeks, and then we’ll have you come in, and then we’ll...
“When I’m on airplanes and every now and then I’ll see people reading one of my books, whenever they stop, they stop and they put it in the seat back in front of them. They close their eyes. I want to walk up to him and shake him and say, why did you...
“I was doing an interview for the Total Television book, interviewing this voice artist named Bradley Bulky who did the voice of Chumley the Walrus on Tennessee Tuxedo. And he answers the phone, he goes, “Hello!” You know, and he sounds just like...
