For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.