I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.