If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.