The writer is the lowest man ion the totem pole, but potentially he has the most power. He comes up with the idea; he makes it work. You can't make a building without a blueprint. You can hire the labor and buy the material, but to make a building you need a blueprint - which means someone has to sit at a table, rack their brain and figure it out. That's what a writer does.

Most writers just want to get their movie made, and it doesn't matter how. I think I am not in that category. I like to get my movies made by the right director so that I can have a body of work I can look back on and be proud of. Otherwise, I would not be doing anything I am doing now. I would be in Hollywood trying to make my first million and move up to Malibu.