'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.