I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

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

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.