It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

Everybody's family has problems.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.