From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. We can also hear at KCRW.com. My guest, John Ridley was last here with his graphic novel, The American Way.

He's now here as one of the screenwriters of the new film, Red Tales.

First of all, John's good to have you back.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me, Elvis.

You've probably been in more areas of kind of the forefront than anybody else,

going back to Undercover Brother being one of the first web series, the web

episodes, and also one of the first of those that was transformed into a movie.

How do you keep finding yourself in these things, sort of like going where no man is going

before?

You know, I really, I love to write.

I mean, more than anything, truly, I just love to write.

I don't really care.

I'm not a snob about it. I told somebody once, you know, if you give me an etchice sketch, I'll write on it.

I don't know if there's something that's going to come out of it, but, you know, it's a

10,000-hour rule.

The more you do it, I really believe the better you get at it.

So why not do it? well, that's beneath me. Television is not the same as doing films. You know, it's writing. Writing is great. I enjoy it. And I enjoy the challenge of telling stories in different mediums.

But the last time you were here, we talked about this a little bit.

You talked about how people were sort of disdainful when you're doing the web until undercover

brother has some success.

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