But what it really is about is storytelling. Character, story, character, story and that kind of got me through, and then I just wrote my ass off. Ev… - Stephen Sommers

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But what it really is about is storytelling. Character, story, character, story and that kind of got me through, and then I just wrote my ass off. Everything I've directed, I've written. So whenever anybody asks me how to become a director, I say "For me, you've got to write." Nobody ever offered me anything the first five years, so I just wrote my own.