You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

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

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

You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.