Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey

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

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.

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

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay that all gets filled in by the director, so it just sort of pulls you back by virtue of the form. You also have to use more economy as a screenwriter and so it's kind of limiting in a good way.