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Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.