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Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

Generally, screenplays suck.

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

It's hard writing screenplays.

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.