Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

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

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I graduated from college in 1980.

If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.