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What got you into playwriting, writing screenplays? Did you always have something to say and

wanted to put the pen to paper? Well, yeah, I was raised as a smart-ass and everyone

always said when I was a kid, nobody likes a smart-ass, but I didn't find that to be true.

Because I always made jokes and I always dramatized. My mother used to say, David, why must

you dramatize everything? Because that's what I was born with that gene. Just like, you know,

Sandy Colvex was born to throw the fastball. Because that worked, I never did anything

else. I would never do any schoolwork. I worked a million, many jobs. We'd call them entry-level

jobs now. We'd call them many jobs then. But when I realized there was this thing called

the theater and that I could actually get in there and have the most fun in the world,

I was never coming out. That's the thing that I see about young people, whatever they're

going into. If they discover something, for example, aviation, if they discover the theater,

they discover the military. If it's in their DNA, they say, you can kill me, but you're

going to have to kill me because I'm never leaving. So that's how I was about theater.

So I started writing plays on this very young and got from there into writing and directing

movies and the rest is, you know, there it is.

Yeah. So I do want to jump into the movies a little bit. But let's start with the book.

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