After fifteen years as a professional film and TV screenwriter, I’ve started talking with old and new friends about who they are and how their personal stories inform the screenplays they write — Earlier this year, I turned to Medium and, more recently, Substack as ways to both discuss the arts and explore my own passion for them. The exploration part of this commitment involved interviewing artists I admire — authors, filmmakers, musicians, fine artists, and more — something I hadn’t done in…