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Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

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

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.