I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

I've never even seen a great set fight or a great set meltdown. I seem to always be on these incredibly relaxed sets.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

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

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.