I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

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.

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

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

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

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.