I write from my stomach.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

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

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

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