I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.

We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.