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- Birth nameSteven Mark Kunes
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Steven Kunes was born on September 7, 1956 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and attended New York University where he received B.A. degrees in Creative Writing and Comparative Literature in 1978. In 1983, at age 26, TV legend Norman Lear hired Kunes to write and develop half-hour comedies for his company, Embassy Television. This led to assignments in the area of one-hour TV and eventually took him to motion pictures, where Kunes became one of Hollywood's most successful script doctors. In 2015, he created the hit comedy series "Over My Dead Body," which streams on Amazon Prime. According to Norman Lear, "This is the best idea for a TV series that I can remember. It's absolutely hilarious." On November 14, 2021, Kunes delivered a TEDx talk "Square One at 60" in Philadelphia. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jeff Sotzing
- Spouse?(May 3, 1981 - August 27, 2001) (divorced, 2 children)
- Wrote the 200th episode of "Love Boat" that TV Guide ranked #82 among the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
- Likes to tell strangers he's a taxidermist or an insurance underwriter.
- Writes his screenplays by hand on a yellow legal pad.
- Graduated from New York University in 1978.
- Writes most of his screenplays with Dustin Hoffman in mind.
- Why does almost everyone I meet ask me to write a movie about their life? I don't want anyone writing a movie about MY life!
- I don't like reading other people's screenplays. In fact, I don't even like reading my own.
- Writing a screenplay is like driving at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but it's possible to make the entire journey that way.
- I have never liked the term 'script doctor' because, in essence, every writer on a movie can be called that. It also implies that the other writers were somehow deficient. I prefer to be referred to as a participating writer.
- Being a script doctor is like making love to a beautiful woman and hearing her call out someone else's name.
- The Theory of Everything (2014) - $275,000
- Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) - $500,000
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) - $450,000
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) - $200,000
- Cast Away (2000) - $150,000
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