When I Was Really Young I Didn't

It's A Mixed Crowd At The Dogs - Black, White, Hispanic - But To Walt They All Look Like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset Guys With Big Plans And Polyester Souls.

To This Day, I Get Rewrite Offers Where They Say: 'we Feel This Script Needs Work With Character, Dialogue, Plot And Tone,' And When You Ask What's Left, They Say: 'well, The Typing Is Very Good.'

There Are Genres I Don't Care For, And I've Never Worked In Those Genres, And Then Sometimes There Are People That I Haven't Liked And I Haven't Worked For Those People. But If I Feel Like There's A Movie That I Would Like To Go See, I'll Jump Into It.

Not That I've Always Loved The Movie When They Finally Come Out, Or If They Ever Come Out-because Many Of Them Don't Come Out-but I've Gotten To Work With Really Good Story Editors And Stuff Like That.

As A Screenwriter I'm Often Writing In Genres Where There Have Been Thousands Of Movies; Whereas When I Direct Movies They Tend To Be In Between Genres. They Tend To Have A Little Bit Of A Genre To Them, But They're Really About The People, And They're People We Haven't Met Before.