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.

You thought writing a screenplay was hard?

It’s great to have big dreams, but we need little dreams along the way ...

Shows trying to tickle our funny bones have become so prolific that we have started to collectively yawn—it takes a lot more to stand out.

These ideas haunt me and the only way to get them out is to put them down.

Erika Fukagawa was in full control of our mental substance, our memories, our minds. We had a parasite living in our brains. A serpent running amok in our souls.

This story is bigger than just my grandfather and the 442nd, it is about the 120,000 Americans who were punished simply because of their ethnicity and how each person responded to it.

Yes, this is that article. The one that dives straight into the mystery that plagues all writers at some point on their creative journey ...

But as I got a little bit older, I wanted to write more. I'd visit sets. I’d watch. I'd think, ‘I could that.’ I saw the evolution of my career.

... the ultimate advantage you can have is having cool never-before-seen ideas in your movie.

As a writer, though, I am troubled by this trend of telling people what they can and can’t write.

... you need to discover new ways of telling stories, try out new and different kinds of writing, go out on a limb and try something crazy in a discipline you’ve never done before.