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One Of The Best Things About Directing Movies, As Opposed To Merely Writing Them, Is That There's No Confusion About Who's To Blame: You Are.

Eat Every Meal As If It's Your Last; When The Last One Comes, You Probably Won't Be Very Hungry.

A Lot Of College Graduates Approach Me About Becoming Screenwriters. I Tell Them, 'do Not Become A Screenwriter, Become A Journalist,' Because Journalists Go Into Worlds That Are Not Their Own. Kids Who Go To Hollywood Write Coming-of-age Stories For Their First Scripts, About What Happened To Them When They Were Sixteen. Then They Write The Summer Camp Script. At The Age Of Twenty-three They Haven't Produced Anything, And That's The End Of The Career.

Working As A Journalist Is Exactly Like Being A Wallflower At An Orgy.

My Mother Wanted Us To Understand That The Tragedies Of Your Life One Day Have The Potential To Be Comic Stories The Next.