Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

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'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.