One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.