- John Collee studied medicine at Edinburgh University and has worked as a doctor in the UK, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the Solomon Islands, and the former Soviet Union.
In addition to his film and TV work he has written three novels - Kingsley's Touch, Paper Mask (1990) and The Rig, (all published by Penguin.) - and contributed a weekly column to The Observer Newspaper.
His adaptation of Paper Mask was his first produced screenplay.
He is married with three children and lives in Sydney, Australia.
- IMDb mini biography by: James Cogswell
- SpouseDeborah Snow(? - present) (3 children)
- If you're holding out to see your name in lights you're always going to be disappointed. The journey is two years minimum and you're names up there for two weeks at the very end ... if at all.
- Most directors are egomaniacs. Thats why they're directors. And most successful writers are masters of adaptation, so they can get along with pretty much anyone.
- Clearly anyone can write a great story if they have sufficiently vivid experiences to write about. My advice to young writers is get a life. Find out what fear, pain, exhaustion love and hunger really feel like. Then work out how to put that feeling in pictures.
- Being a screenwriter is like being a furniture maker. Every piece you make is different but there are only a few structures which work. You get to know at a glance if it will stand up or fall over.
- You know, this whole thing about the solitary tortured artist is nonsense I think. All the great creative people I know have become great precisely because they know how to get along with people and swim around in the communal unconscious.
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