I'm A Huge Planner, More And More

I'm Very Keen. Adaptations Of Other People's Work, Too. I Got Fascinated By The Adaptation Process, So I Think That'd Be A Really Interesting Task. I Would Happily Write Original Screenplays As Well. I Think It's Become One Of My Favorite Genres.

The Collector [john Fowles Book] Does Such A Good Job Of Capturing The Mindset Of A Capturer, And Also That's Become A Banal Trope Of Every Second Crime Novel: The Weirdo, Fetishistic Watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper Of Women Or Children.

The Great Thing About A Short Story Is That It Doesn't Have To Trawl Through Someone's Whole Life; It Can Come In Glancingly From The Side.

I Thought One Way To Try To Hold On To The Power Was To Write The Script Myself. That Way, I Could Say To Filmmakers, "i'm Not Asking You To Hire Me Unseen. I'm Just Saying, 'here's My Script. Can We Work Together?'" So That Worked Out Well.

Stories Are A Different Kind Of True.