I took a lot of writing courses.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.