"I wrote 11 scripts before I sold my first script." Michael Arndt on what it takes to be a successful writer: "I'm gonna be a writer, I'll probably write a screenplay a year, and I'm probably gonna live for fifty more years. So I'm probably gonna write 50 screenplays." "If I'm lucky, five of them will get made into movies. And if I'm lucky, one of them will be a good movie." "My number one thing is you gotta be humble." "Kurosawa gets up to receive his honorary Oscar. He's in his eighties, and he stands up and he goes, I don't feel like I deserve this yet because I'm only beginning to understand movies now. And I'm like, if Kurosawa can be that humble about movies and storytelling, like, we should all be humble."