I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there.