You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.