It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

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

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.