“No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV a”

“I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.”