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

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

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.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

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

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

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