“This is a really rough business. You’ll get rejections if you stop because you got a rejection or somebody else says, don’t do this. Most agents, if they don’t want your work, they’ll say something like, uh, it doesn’t meet my...
“Just sit down and start writing. It sounds so simple, but it’s so profound. That’s what you need to do. I don’t like writing. I like editing and rewriting. That’s where you really love it. And so realize what you throw down is not going...
“You need to, assemble, uh, some people in your life who are good writers and usually that could be a person in the screenwriting class that you’re taking. It really helps to have a mentor in this business send your script around too. But if you take their...
“I’ll tell you one of the things I used to do in my, uh, English, uh, literature classes when I was teaching for the University of Maryland. I take them out and, um, for 10 minutes, all I just said, all I want you to do when I go outside is look up in the...
“Don’t just sit down and write a book. It’s just not going to work. The best thing to do is take the smallest steps and write a little scene about something. You don’t have to have the whole book. You don’t have to even know what...
