The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.
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 didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
It's hard writing screenplays.
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.
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