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

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

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

The end is built into the beginning.

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.