There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.

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

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.