I Like To Act. I Work For

But Compared To Writing A Novel, Where You Can Be God, I Did The Bay Of Pigs Invasion In Six Pages Once, And There Were 50,000 Guys With Boots That I Didn't Have To Pay, And All Those Extras; We Didn't Have To Pay Them.

When I Read A Story Or See Something Play Out In Front Of Me I Say, How Come Nobody's Made A Movie Or A Television Show Out Of This? This Is Something That Belongs In The Conversation. Certainly That's What Interests Me About A Project.

I Figured Somebody Wrote A Story Who Had A Typewriter And I Thought That Movies Were Made By The Cowboys And That They Just Said, 'okay, You Fall Off The Horse This Time.

I Certainly Grew Up Seeing More Movies And Television Than I Read Books, But When It Came Time To Do The Thing Itself You Don't Have To Hire A Lot Of People To Sit Down And Write A Book, So That Was The Story-telling Medium That Was Available To Me.

I Never Thought About Being A Writer As I Grew Up. A Writer Wasn't Something I Wanted To Be. An Outfielder Was Something To Be. Most Of What I Know About Style I Learned From Roberto Clemente.