Aline Brosh McKenna

But magazine publishing was not like that.

And so I, my roommate then got a TV writing job and she left to go to LA.

And I thought, well, take a screenwriting class.

I'll start with the thing I love the most because I always really loved movies.

I'll start with the thing I love the most and then I'll kind of

bump down into whatever form of writing finds me.

And the teacher really right away was like, oh, you have some promise here.

And at the end of the class, he said, I've never said this to anyone in seven years, but you need to move to L.A.

and be a screenwriter.

This is what you were meant to do.

And it was one of those conversations with the world.

It was like, well, I guess there's something here.

Now, you know, I came out to LA and then banged my head on lots of doors, but it was not... The magazine thing was like, there's no way I can describe how fruitless it was.

Like, no one liked our ideas.

No one wanted to meet us.

No one wanted to invite us to a party.

And then when I started screenwriting, it was like...

Oh, I gave the script.

Oh, I'd like to be your agent.

You know, you're going to get a blind deal at Universal.