Brian Koppelman

Civil damages against Robinhood for breaking user agreements could be enormous

If Robinhood shut down and stopped you from being able to trade, in violation of the user agreement you signed, I think the damages against them in a civil case are fucking extraordinary, enormous damages.

George Clooney is a college-level athlete

So Clooney's very, very good. He's college-level athlete. Full college level... [Clooney] was a great baseball player, like college-level baseball recruited for baseball and he really knows how basketball works. Like he knows how to do a pick-and-roll. He understands basketball.

Woody Harrelson has legitimate basketball hops

I thought I could beat Woody... and he destroyed me, man. He was up at the hoop. He could really get right to the hoop... Woody has hops. Yes.

All screenwriting books are absolute bullshit

I just said for the fuck of it one day: All screenwriting books are bullshit. All of them. Read screenplays, watch movies, and let those be your guide... if you have to go to a Radisson for a seminar, it's fake. It's fake.

If you are paying to attend a seminar in a hotel conference room, you are being scammed

If you have to go to a Radisson for a seminar, it's fake. No matter what the subject is, you're paying money to attend a conference room just at a hotel, you got scammed... if you're trying to fill that hole in a hotel conference room, don't go.

Successful creators must ignore the 'safe middle' and focus on what they find fascinating

Executives in any endeavor and any business will always try to get the safe middle. But if you're a creator, you have to ignore the safe middle and you have to be going for what's really fascinating to you... if you can make that stuff compelling enough then people will hang in.