I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

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

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 guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn't truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess I don't see people change ninety or a hundred degrees. I see them change in very small increments. I think it's just a monitor I might have on myself as a writer to not make any false scenes.

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

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.