I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.