There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful thing to get to have in a story. And in a movie, it's amazing, because you actually get to show things.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.