That’s when it clicked: filmmaking is the perfect intersection of all of my interests.

... she is not the typical film nerd one expects at the helm of one of the last remaining family-owned movie palaces in the country.

... if you've got an idea that you want to tackle but it feels like it's just "too insane" to pull off ... you might want to rethink that.

I’d bet on a variety show starring Taylor Swift versus sinking $200 million into another superhero saga any day of the week.

It's been all kinds of responses, but that's why I had that little pebble in my shoe—we don't talk about mental health as much as we can, or normalize it.

I’m willing to bet that if all of you made your heroes more like Forrest Gump, your scripts would be much better for it.

... the world shines a light on success stories but doesn’t always highlight the struggle to get to that success, or the blatant truth of failure.

Everything I loved about the process evaporated, replaced by bone-aching exhaustion that induced a mixture of nausea and the constant threat of tears.

The soul under that stone has no name. At least not one anyone remembers.

How does one not only determine when a project is ready for circulation but also when YOU ready to step out into the chaos that is the film & TV industry?

So many of you seem to be making the exact same mistakes with your writing. And from my vantage point, they're all easily fixable.

Is it fear that I can’t do it anymore? That I overpromise results and then freeze in fear that I can’t fulfill that promise?

... that amazing rep you have? They’re out. It’s not you, it’s them. What now?

Shame is, in many ways, like that gun being held on a crowd. Everyone can relate.

... the thing about screenwriting that's interesting is that everybody wants to talk about what you're doing, like, four years after you did it.