I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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.

It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and a painting. An illustration serves a specific purpose, and a painting is something you can immerse yourself in.

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.

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

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