When I Go Back And Reread The

I Can Look At My Early Work And See What A Pained Struggle It Was To Draw What I Was Drawing. I Was Trying So Hard To Get This Specific Look That Was In My Head, And Always Falling Short.

I've Had A Real Lucky Time Working In Hollywood. I've Talked To Other Screenwriters, And They're All Kind Of Beaten Down And Their Spirits Are Crushed, Because They Work On These Screenplays And These Projects, And Then Directors Either Take Them And Change Everything, Rewrite Them And Make Them Worse, Or They Film Them And They're Nothing Like How They Imagined It To Be.

At A Certain Point, I Realized That I Could Draw Anything, And There Was Nothing I Should Avoid - I Could Make It Work. That's Opened Me Up To Being Able To Be Much More Comfortable Telling Any Kind Of Story.

I Think If You Had Different Artists Approaching The Material In Different Styles, That's Very Different. I Think It's An Interesting Thing To Discover, What's Present In The Work Even When You're Shifting The Styles. I've Just Found It A Much Stronger Way To Work.

I Actually Start Drawing Things. Usually They're Abandoned Before I Commit Too Much Time And Effort.