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

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

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

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

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