If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.