# Interviews

"I just want to put stuff out there that reminds people how we are not only interconnected, but we're codependent. And we won't accept that, like we actually kind of all need each other." - Kemp Powers

The life of a novelist is a very solitary endeavor. You engage the blank page on your own ... But in order for it to become a commercial product that is going to reach a wider audience, there has to be collaboration there.

John Bucher discusses story’s past, present, and future with the man who literally wrote the book on the subject: Robert McKee.

"If you want to get better odds of selling a spec, write a role that could change a movie star’s life." - Ian Shorr

If you’re trying to figure out how to make your horror script work, you’ve probably read the scripts of writing team Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. And if you haven’t, you need to.

“There comes a point in our life where we get to an age and see a little less in front of us ... it's about what we are we going to leave behind."

“When I go back ... I lied a lot. That was the beginning of my storytelling career."

Mark Steven Johnson stepped behind the lens to direct Finding Steve McQueen, the true story of a gang of Ohio bank robbers that attempted to steal $30 million from President Richard Nixon’s secret illegal fund.

“All we really have is what we make and put out. And that’s the only stuff I enjoy doing.”

"Who am I to suggest such a thing? This fear, which affects every writer. Myself included. People think it doesn't affect those who are successful, but, of course, it does." - Jane Friedman

I’ve discovered that while an agent’s primary job is to sell books, their most important job is to keep their clients writing when we try to talk ourselves out of it.

"I cannot stress enough the power of passion, when it comes to getting these things made."

I wanted to write about the various ways that misogyny and patriarchal mindsets are embedded within the Indian culture. And I wanted this to encompass all levels of class and construct.

"Animation is so close to the language of dreams, and the language of dreams is so close to the language of mythology."

Ultimately, my goal was to connect with who I was ten years ago, and show him that gay nobodies can do epic things.