[…] “Scott, you are the only screenwriting teacher I’ve ever had.” This is what Lisa Joy shared with me when we had dinner together in L.A. last fall to celebrate the recent sale of her spec script “Reminiscence” which Legendary Pictures acquired in a deal worth a reported $1.75M. In addition to her screenwriting, Lisa has been on staff and written for TV (“Pushing Daisies,” “Burn Notice”), created a graphic novel “Athena” which has been developed for TV, and co-wrote the pilot with her husband Jonathon Nolan for a TV series adaptation of the classic 1973 science fiction movie …read more […]

I am impressed. Going to Harvard law school and still managing to write still sounds difficult as heck. I liked how ballsy, she was in giving up her job and just going for it. Why do we use the word "balls" for courage? Patriarch society. I guess I could try to say how ovarian of her. I like her advice that if you keep writing and honing it then the chances get better. I have been reading a minimum of one script a day lately while also rewriting a script I'm working on and I keep learning new stuff every day. I also keep out of my mind that al of this might lead no where. I look forward to the rest of the interview. Thank you again, for running this website Scott!

It seems like she had the right screenwriting friends to support her ambition and open doors for her. How and where did she build her network? Or were her screenwriting friends also working for a consultant company?

[…] -Lisa Joy, from an interview with Scott Myers on his blog […]