If you’re trying to figure out how to make your horror script work, you’ve probably read the scripts of writing team Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. And if you haven’t, you need to.

The most constructive filmmaker for learning screenwriting for me was Terrence Malick. To anybody who knows what any of that means, it might sound like an oxymoron.

I cherish the couple of hours in a theater when the phones are silenced, the lights are dimmed, and you’re completely immersed into another person’s world.

As the screenwriter, as an artist in general, all I’ve come to do is trust the process. Trust that if I’m incredibly efficient, if I display range and depth ... this will win out in the end.

What happened to sci-fi? When did it become so predictable, so unvaried, so unimaginative?

Procrastination. The scoundrel’s got a rather sullied rep, wouldn’t you agree? His very name is synonymous in most minds with laziness and lethargy.

Many facets of the Hollywood game are draped in shadow and secret. And as I see it, they really shouldn’t be.

I don't believe in points of no return, I want to be an example that it's never too late to take action and go after what you want.

I had to learn to become as good a businessman as I was a wordsmith.

But love does leave a mark. It makes a trail. You can follow it and revisit it, whenever you need it, and it will light a path leading you to your true voice.

“There comes a point in our life where we get to an age and see a little less in front of us ... it's about what we are we going to leave behind."

Don’t go out of your way for someone who doesn’t value you.

What about good, original storytelling? What about hearing what this generation of cartoonists and filmmakers and screenwriters want to say?

This mutually exclusive conundrum is where I found myself after finishing my first novel ...

“When I go back ... I lied a lot. That was the beginning of my storytelling career."