India, Oct. 5 -- How did you start writing? When did you decide to be a screenwriter?

I have always been a compulsive hobbyist. As a child, I liked stitching clothes for dolls, painting, drawing, writing. I was perpetually in some creative work. I would write poetry, too. I was doing everything because I needed that creative outlet. I even journaled at the age of six. Any emotion I had, I had to pour it out in some sort of creative art. But it was my father, who said, "You will be a writer." He didn't say, "you can be". He said, "you will be." I must have been 15. I thought this is it! And after that it never changed. This is what I knew I had to do and would be doing. Horror was a genre I really wanted to do. I didn't know how to make a...