With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.