There is a lot of management going on with directing. Maybe that was the biggest surprise-just the amount of tending that I had to do. The different personalities . . . It's not my way, and it's never been my function before as a writer. I tend to be a moody and somewhat withdrawn person, and I felt very clearly that I had to throw that away because that wasn't allowed here - there were other people who were going to be filling that role. Sometimes it became exhausting, especially around the eleventh hour of the day.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

She was nice. Nice is good.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

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.

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.