There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.