...teaching
"Kay Boyle (writer & political activist) once told me, “I teach my writing students to become revolutionaries.” And that sums it up for me. I teach the rules and I expect the good students to break them. There is no finer feeling than to build a good foundation and then hand someone a sledge hammer and let them smash it, to give us their own unique point of view."
...a book to read
"One of my favorite Screen Writing Books is William Akers’ Your Screenplay Sucks! 100 Ways To Make It Great. I also like Blake Synders, Save The Cat. I also recommend the classics, Chinatown, To Kill A Mockingbird, Double Indemnity and a host of others. You want to write screenplays, you better learn how to read them."
...writing
"The toughest part of writing is putting your butt in the chair! Until you can do that consistently and tune everything else out, you’re not really writing. Once you make writing a habit you’ll be amazed how much you miss it on the days you don’t write."