I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."

I've always been entranced with theater.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.