“With your drafts, be ruthless. What do you need? What can you toss away? And then read everything out loud. Because the way you read it versus the way it sounds… it’s a different experience and you catch things that you wouldn’t catch when you...
“Find something that you find interesting that will challenge you to keep going. Never get discouraged. I had 20 rejections. And if your dream is to be a writer, chase that dream. Don’t stop. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s over…Like a...
“This moment is all we have. Get outside of your comfort zone. Just get out there and do it. And it’s like the expression, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. It’s not going to all happen overnight. It’s lucky when it does. But when...
“It’s not how much money you have. It’s not what you’ve accomplished. It’s not the failures. Your character is everything. Everybody’s got a window of time when you’re relevant, and then your time ends and you’re out of...
“…and he said the difference between movies and television is with television. You should be able to turn off the picture and just listen to them talk. But with movies, you should be able to turn off the sound and watch it, because one’s visual and one is...
