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

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

I have a lot of anxiety about medical things for example. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but I'd had the practice when I went into shooting Synecdoche. It can be somewhat gratifying, too, because I don't have that relationship with other adults where I need to comfort them or they come to me for that.

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 can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

She was nice. Nice is good.

I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.