I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.