I work best under pressure. At home I look at a script for about 10 minutes then I get distracted by my records, or my tape, or my videotape machine, or Scotty.
I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.
I find a lot of things to do before I do eventually get to work. I have a built-in horror of missing a deadline and letting everybody down, but I can procrastinate by doing puzzles and reading...
I don't want anything to disrupt my routine or make people uncomfortable in meetings during the NCAA Tournament or leading up to the Super Bowl.
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.
I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.
In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.