There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across National Lampoon Magazine, that was a big thing. I suddenly felt like there were other people that felt the way I did, and there was a way of expressing and communicating this worldview.

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

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than 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.