Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!) but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Yes I do often write poems from the mind but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are you come out and hope that no one runs away.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.

Ironically Latin American countries in their instability give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.