"We usually end up knowing the beginning and the end and we just start writing and discover the characters as we go along" – Writer, Raynold Gideon

“All your characters have to have lives; they have something they are fighting for or against.”

"We sit in that office and start with “What if? What if?” Instead of making him a loner, make him a family man. Instead of making him despicable, make him nice. There was a lot of that."

"Why is he doing this?"

"Why is she doing that?"

“I mean, you start writing, as you know, and characters take off and they go, ‘Uh-uh, I don’t want to go there. This is where I want to go.’ You’ve got to follow them, otherwise it just doesn’t work.”

“Our inspiration doesn’t stray far from our experience.”

“You only have a certain amount of experience and things to draw on in your life and it’s either what you read or what you experience or what you seek … yeah”

"Sometimes the rewriting is kind of like twitching -- it's a twitching that keeps you active while you're trying to figure out what to [write] next. You're rewriting the scene that you're rewriting, but that's causing your writing muscles to actually start writing the scene you're going to do next."

“I’ve read about four perfect scripts in my life and this is one of them. To have an Oscar winning director, a major superstar, tell you that you’ve written a perfect script … [pause]

We didn’t write for the rest of that day. We just went out to Dan Tanna’s and had a great steak and a bottle of wine.”