I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's work that I would write, but the idea of taking someone else's material entirely doesn't interest me. One of the things that I found really helpful, at least in my mind - and I've never discussed this with the actors or with the people I work with - is that being a neophyte in directing, I feel like I have a kind of authority simply because I'm the writer as well.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

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

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

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