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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.