As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.