Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.