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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.

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

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.

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

You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

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 am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

It's hard writing screenplays.