Writing is a journey into the unknown.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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

The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.