And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Meet me in Montauk.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.