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

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

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

If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.