If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know...

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing...

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so...

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so... The more I can, the better.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've...

It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic yet it seems like it's a great secret.

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

If it doesn't sell it isn't creative.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Don't try to make something that someone has already did. Try to make something different.

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

I can do it, yes I can. from You can do it, yes you can. Think Tank Ink for Scriptwriters.

A great photographer shows off his talent & awards on Facebook. An amateur photographer shows off his work and skill on Facebook. A foolgrapher shows off his camera and how he holds it, on Facebook.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every...

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly...

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you...

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises... .If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,...

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.