“I’ve always been somebody who believes that if something is calling to you creatively and it feels scary and or challenging, chances are that’s what you should be doing. So in those moments when I was daunted by where the story was going, I would...
“I get a call from my agent. He’s like, Leonard DiCaprio’s manager just read the script. She loves it. She’s giving it to Leo. And then I’m getting a call, like, okay, he’s gonna read it tomorrow. Then I get a call the next day, he...
“Finish what you start. You can’t fix something that’s not done. So if you start writing a book, if you start writing a song, if you start writing a script, a play, that’s awesome. It’s gonna be terrible at first, so don’t worry...
“My big advice is do your homework. See what’s been made before you go make your film, not because you want to copy it. You need to understand the context in which you’re making something and what’s been done before. And even watching films...
“Something that really in retrospect gave me a breakthrough was writing for an anthology. This publisher said, well, do you have a book? And I’m like, yeah, yeah, I have a book. So they said, we’d like to see it. The anthologies can really sort of...
“Well, the best I can say is create inventory. Don’t think that the first thing that you do is precious….don’t harbor the illusion that that is going to be the thing… to send you into the stratosphere. Don’t try to second guess...
