# Read

“How do you guys write together and stay married?” ... the only arguments we have in our marriage are about the motivations of our character.

Look, I understand that it’s called show business, not show art, but still, where is the show part in so many of these tin-eared studio exec’s equations?

OK isn’t good enough for me and shouldn’t be for you either. The idea is to send out your best work, and YOU need to be hard enough on yourself to be the ultimate judge of that.

What do you, as an author, promise your readers and customers? What are you promising a fan every time they pick up one of your books?

Every decision we had to make for our own careers became a fight, and every fight became a huge question of whether we were going in the same direction.

But the way I see it, all fiction originates as fan fic in one way or another.

Getting a fractured audience’s attention is getting harder and harder.

“Write something you care about, then find out why afterwards.”

The Pipeline staff was beyond supportive in my quest to produce a readable screenplay. They were encouraging but pushed me to produce something worth filming. It took about 50 drafts, but I got there with their help. My screenplay was born!

You can be the best makeup artist in the world, but if you don't get along with people and can't read the trailer, the room, the atmosphere, the actor … If you don't have that, then you will never make it in the film business.

I’m all for pushing envelopes, but should cringe be a part of awards show comedy?

... desperation can kick in—you chase “what’s popular” rather than staying true to your creative vision.

No joke, I think this has the most cigarettes I’ve ever seen in a movie.

... and dammit if I wasn't completely blown away. By the time I turned the final page, I'd quasi fallen in love with the freaking thing.‌

This is how I will heal what two years in L.A. have done to me.