A few years ago, I heard this story from a friend of mine.  He's got a kid in elementary school –- he and the family live back east -– and one day, in his oldest kid's second-grade classroom, suddenly, without warning, all of the kids started to throw up...

The only time you really, truly know that you've made a sale in

I want to tell you a story. I started working in the entertainment industry in 1990. I was twenty-four...

Years ago, when I told my agent that I had written a book, she said to me, "Hey, if you want $800, I'll give you $800."

The great thing about the entertainment industry – well, one of the great things.  It's a fantastic industry in almost every way – is at some point, no matter who you are or how much power you have, eventually you're going to have to sit in someone's office – probably someone you despise – and pitch...

I had lunch not too long ago with a friend of mine. We sat down, the

Here's what I believe: I believe that if you're a writer in Hollywood

The chairman of a large movie studio once said that the movie and

When you're writing a script, sometimes you resort to a plot device