Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.
If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.