James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment) relates his love for screenwriting: "I never knew anybody who ever got a Writers Guild card who didn't have a hard time when somebody said, 'What do you do for a living?' saying, 'I'm a writer.'
Carrie Fisher, who in addition to making headlines as a judge on the FOX show On the Lot is also a highly paid script doctor, tells how she got started re-writing screenplays: "It was Spielberg that asked me to rewrite Hook-just to rewrite Tinker Bell.