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I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I always wanted to direct and write a movie, but I thought that I didn't really have it in me. I tried to write fiction and humorous short stories, and some were considered successful, but it was always a huge effort for a small reward. I was always intimidated by the process.

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.