My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.

In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.