Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done.

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.