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

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

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

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.

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.