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I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

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

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.

Generally, screenplays suck.