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

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

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

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

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