I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

I like having my own story remain my story.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

I've never flown a kite.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.