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

As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

There is a lot of management going on with directing. Maybe that was the biggest surprise-just the amount of tending that I had to do. The different personalities . . . It's not my way, and it's never been my function before as a writer. I tend to be a moody and somewhat withdrawn person, and I felt very clearly that I had to throw that away because that wasn't allowed here - there were other people who were going to be filling that role. Sometimes it became exhausting, especially around the eleventh hour of the day.

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.