Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Death is the ultimate negative.
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.