Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.