Jeff at 2009-10-11 09:11:41:
Probably a 2nd best takeaway moment would be how she answers the final question. She was forced to read 1000 bad screenplays for a festival one summer. "Writers are readers," she says.
Scott, you've been hammering that point since the first day I stopped by these parts and it's so true. Whenever I'm in a deep rut (er, quite often, actually), I simply head on over to a site like mypdfscripts.com and grab one out of the lot and start reading. Invariably, my stymied creativity will find the 'on' switch again...