I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.