But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

That said, be mindful, to someone who's never seen any of my work, it's just a movie with actors. So it's only those who of course know the earlier work that will see something is afoot, so to speak. But I don't want to intellectualize.