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.

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

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

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

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

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.