You Are What You Love. Not What

I Studied Acting At Boston University. I Was In The Theater Department There. Somewhere In There I Decided That Wasn't What I Was Going To Do And I Went To The B.f.a. Film Program At N.y.u.

I Think If I've Worked Anything Through With Screenwriting It's That I'm Not Going To Be Able To Work Anything Through.

I'm Jewish, And My Family Is Jewish. I Was Very Interested In Woody Allen When I Was Growing Up, But I Don't Think Of Myself As A Jewish Writer. I'm More From Suburbia, American Suburbia. I'm More From The '70s Than I Am From Judaism.

I Try To Make Things Interesting And Thought-provoking.

There's A Point I Can Get To Where I Start Writing Character And Then Through The Dialogue, After All Of This Preparation, The Thing Starts To Feel Like It's A Character Developing Through The Dialogue. A Lot Of Character Traits Do Come From Writing Dialogue, But I Have To Be Ready To Do It.