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

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

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.

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 directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is that it's a very, very pragmatic job, and writing isn't.