When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

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.

When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

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