From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

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 impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.

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

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