A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.