I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.
During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.
I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.
I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.
There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
