I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I always wanted to strip. I'm sort of one of those people who would walk past a strip club and while everybody else might give it a passing glance or cracks a joke, I'd be like pressing my face up against the window trying to see in. I was very curious always.

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

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

Jeez banana! Shut your freaking gob!

You hear the term "staying grounded" a lot when you're coming up in the movie industry and it's the one word I don't really understand because it implies being tethered almost and I don't like that. Why stay grounded? You might as well become a complete eccentric, float off into the sky and burn yourself on the sun and go crazy.

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