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.

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

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

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

I write from my stomach.