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Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

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.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

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.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.