I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

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

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.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.