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

The end is built into the beginning.

Directing was a big learning experience for me because I had to deal with every aspect of everything-all this constant decision-making, with people asking you questions at every moment, and you have to have answers for them all.

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

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.

If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.