If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter.

… this is my first language.” {on Writing}

Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone.