Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.