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'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully..

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me..

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching wa….

I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's work that I would ….

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….

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the ….

The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they….

Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and hapha….

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I….

She was nice. Nice is good..

We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other.….

Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic….

Writing is a journey into the unknown..

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail..

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true..

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enorm….

There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I ca….

And also the idea of not making it apparent that it's different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is ….

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process..

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear ….