- Himself - Host: Do you change the style of writing from script to script, based on what kind of story you're telling?
- Bruce Joel Rubin: I'm not in charge of that exactly. Movies have a voice, and that voice arises *in* you as you start to tell the story.
- Bruce Joel Rubin: [Referring to Martin Scorsese, who was a classmate of Rubin's in the NYU School of Arts' film program] Somebody once said - Marty... said it once; he said, "I only want to make movies that celebrate life." And I kept looking - "Well when are you going to do that? When is that going to happen?"
- Himself - Host: [laughing]
- Bruce Joel Rubin: [Referring to the characters in his screenplays in the process of writing] They speak differently than I expected. They have another sort of worldview or approach; I don't know why they have it, it just comes out that way. And I just become, in a sense, this observer. I just go, "Wow!" And I'm like the first person to see the movie... That's the best experience.
- Bruce Joel Rubin: [Expressing advice he would give to aspiring screenwriters] If you have to get up at 2 in the morning because an idea strikes you, get up at 2 in the morning and *don't* wait until you get up at 6,7, or 8 or whatever. Do it when it's there... be alive to your career... be alive to the story. Stories deliver themselves in their own way and in their own time, and if you're not there to receive it, you miss it. It's gone. Be a conduit... be a conduit; don't think it's you making it. Be aware that you've been given the gift of the story. Serve the story.