So, how did I get started?

 Well, I started writing plays and scripts in sixth grade. “Snow Night and the Seven Dorks” & “United Bananas” were my first attempts. What I really wanted to be was a director. There were—my 12-year-old self-learned—a few main ways to become a director. You could start out as a cinematographer. I had no equipment. You could be a famous actor. I can act. But that doesn’t mean I can act well. Or…you can be a writer. In my comp classes, I wrote everything in present tense. One frustrated teacher finally wrote in the margin: “This is not prose! It reads like a screenplay.” So, that’s how I started.