I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.