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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.