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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.