I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

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.

David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.