I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

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

I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's work that I would write, but the idea of taking someone else's material entirely doesn't interest me. One of the things that I found really helpful, at least in my mind - and I've never discussed this with the actors or with the people I work with - is that being a neophyte in directing, I feel like I have a kind of authority simply because I'm the writer as well.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.