When you're trying to come up with an idea for a movie it's actually the hardest part - the germ of the idea. Inevitably you think of something that would be great and then discover that it was on an episode of The Simpsons.

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.