Quotes

"I would say ... ego, guilt, boredom, the need for approval, a love of language, and the desire to entertain myself. I think it was William Saroyan who said he wrote so that he would have something good to read in his old age. That's not a bad reason." (on why he writes)

Surely, by this time, it is common knowledge that screenwriters - unlike novelists or playwrights - are hired hands who are neither the legal owners nor final arbiters of their own work, and whose every page is subject to the sometimes capricious approval, disapproval, additions, subtractions, constructive and destructive intrusion of the producer and/or director.