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Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

I always write the script by myself.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.