I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

And also the idea of not making it apparent that it's different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is supposed to think that they are with him when he wakes up in the morning.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

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.

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.