The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.