You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.

She was nice. Nice is good.

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

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

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

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.