There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

The film is made in the editing room.

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.