I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.