I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.