"I never 'decided' to be a writer. I used to write a lot, then show it to my friends—one or two of them anyway—with the idea, more or less, of astonishing or confounding them with the content of the pages. I knew they had never seen anything like this before—I mean, the weirdest thing they could possibly have read before was Poe..." Read the full interview here: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6126/the-art-of-screenwriting-n...