I'm More Interested In Characters Who Are

I've Had A Real Lucky Time Working In Hollywood. I've Talked To Other Screenwriters, And They're All Kind Of Beaten Down And Their Spirits Are Crushed, Because They Work On These Screenplays And These Projects, And Then Directors Either Take Them And Change Everything, Rewrite Them And Make Them Worse, Or They Film Them And They're Nothing Like How They Imagined It To Be.

I Try To Only Work On The Screenplays For A Few Hours A Day When I'm In My Most Voluble Mood, Just Sort Of Writing Whatever Comes Into My Head. It's A Very Freeing Thing.

One Of My Weekend Hobbies Is To Go Look At Old Houses When There Are Open Houses Around Here. Just To Go Look At The Architecture. And You Can See How Many Houses Were Built Around 1977, The Year Where Everyone Said, "let's Put In These Aluminum Windows Instead Of Beautiful Hand-made Wood Ones."

Face It, You Hate Every Single Boy On The Face Of The Earth!" "that's Not True, I Just Hate All These Obnoxious, Extroverted, Pseudo-bohemian Art-school Losers

There Are Certain Comics That Just Seem Like They Have This Perfect Balance Between Dialogue And Image That I Can't Not Read. I'll Want To Save It For Later, And The Next Thing I Know, I'm Reading It. That's What I'm Kind Of Trying To Do With My Comics.