Some people don’t respond to civility.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.