You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.