I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

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.

As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.