Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

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

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.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

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