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I love writing for the screen.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.