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I really relish just wallowing in the language, the descriptions, making sure everything is as tight and on-point as it can possibly be.

This is so important to writing good dialogue that it deserves to be on a card on your bulletin board … or at least in caps on its own line.

Stand in front of that mirror and ask, “Self, do you want to have a writing career? Are you willing to dare to be vulnerable? To speak positively about yourself and your work?"

“Be careful of what you wish for,” my dad said, as I popped my first letter to Jerry Bruckheimer in the mail.

It’s a bumpy journey, full of twists and turns that you won’t see coming, but the last thing you should do is stop.

As “working screenwriters” who’d already at that point grown terminally ill of the bureaucracy surrounding film productions and the industry in general, we vowed to make this maverick film completely outside of the traditional channels and system.

John Bucher had a chance to sit down with Stoller and the cast of Storks — Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, and Stephen Kramer Glickman — to talk about the project.

It’s as if people sometimes don’t have any idea what they’re doing, and yet they firmly believe that they do.

I decided to focus on the things I could control rather than treating my career like a blind gamble, because the house always wins.

You’re telling a fictionalized version of true events, and now comes the awkward part: how to tell the people who may recognize themselves in it.

There is also an unhealthy obsession with "natural talent," making it somehow more meaningful than hard work, and this has never sat well with me.

"That moment has got to feel like the greatest moment of this guy's life, you know, like we're behind him and not in front of him."

If the film industry was a meritocracy based solely on effort, or finding a way to make something great with limited budgets, Hollywood would look very, very different. But it doesn’t.

By sanding off the edges, these new versions wholly sacrificed most of the fun and audacity that made the originals so popular in the first place.

When the editors had a story idea that could get a journalist maimed or killed, I was among the first scribes they’d reach out to.