Occupation: Screenwriter Birth: November 19, 1958
I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don'….
I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must b….
I graduated from college in 1980..
I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt..
When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from ….
The end is built into the beginning..
Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided….
I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the mov….
I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully..
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where….
She was nice. Nice is good..
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do..
When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your….
I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal..
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than th….
When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not l….
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write..
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process..
Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what….
Directing was a big learning experience for me because I had to deal with every aspect of everything-all this constant decision-making, with people a….
I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship..