Tony Kushner on screenwriting (from a commencement address)

And as long as I have slipped and am offering advice, here's some more: Don't smoke, are you crazy? Don't take drugs, aren'’t there enough chemicals in your shampoo and your apples and your air and your antihistimene, don'’t drink it makes you sloppy, don'’t drive an SUV are you crazy, don'’t make deals with the devil don'’t even do lunch with the devil donÂ't even take his phone calls; he wants you to write a screenplay for him and he wants to give you NOTES.