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As a writer, it's very difficult to just hand your script over to someone else, especially if you have to watch them hurt it, and that's when I decided I would direct my own work.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.

You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.