I Can't Write At Night. For Me,

I Don't Know If I Have Some Kind Of Defiance Disorder Or Something, But If I'm Hired To Write Something By "the Man," Or By A Studio, For Whatever Reason, It's Really Hard For Me To Finish. I Inevitably Wind Up Using That Time To Write Something Else.

I Try To Avoid Twitter. I Occasionally Can't Resist The Siren Call Of Email.

I Keep Joking That I'm In Jason Reitman Film School, Because I Keep Asking Him Questions Every Single Day About Directing And I Have A List Of Things That He's Told Me To Do And Not Do And I Definitely Couldn't Learn From A Better Person.

I Actually Have Two Children Now, And Sometimes I Wonder If That's It. Because They Do Make Writing And Directing More Complicated And More Difficult, Especially Now That They're Very Young.

Here's My Unsolicited Advice To Any Aspiring Screenwriters Who Might Be Reading This: Don’t Ever Agonize About The Hordes Of Other Writers Who Are Ostensibly Your Competition. No One Else Is Capable Of Doing What You Do.