I'm tired of doing rewrites for executives.

Disney usually doesn't do pitches for original ideas.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.