I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.