You need to put it all down in writing so everybody is on the same page, everybody understands,

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

When I first talked about writing with Saul he insisted on the ability to change, to get a serious grip on what was real in your life, ... He was the 20th century's literary wizard, who fused the intellect and the imagination in glorious and comic language that we'd never heard before.

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

Whether or not you write well, write bravely