Jennifer Salt

With then roommate Margot Kidder, the pair partied at their Malibu (CA) home with fledgling filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma in the late 1960s.

[on screenwriting] As I got older I really began to appreciate the work my father did when he was in his prime. I would watch the films he wrote the screenplays for, read the notations and changes he made in his scripts, etc. It became very interesting. I began to think a great deal about it. I realized that the process of writing is what it is all about. If you have a terrible script even the best director can't save the project. Writing is so inspiring. For me it isn't unlike a sculptor creating a work of art, or a painter creating anything he can imagine on a canvas.