After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.