Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.