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

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Meet me in Montauk.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.