I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

The end is built into the beginning.

I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.