I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.