I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.
I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.
I would love to do film someday, but I think we are all so happily in tune with 'Glee' that we are sticking with that right now.
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.
No one bought my screenplays.