Top 20 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

You never have to change a book for budget.

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty.

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.