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I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

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

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

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

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.