I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.