A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.

We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.

Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.