You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small an….

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that ….

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and….

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do..

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production..

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it..

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me..

I have a lot of health anxiety..

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another..

As a kid, I had a background in theater..

Meet me in Montauk..

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun..

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….

The end is built into the beginning..

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….

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something ….

My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across National Lampoon Magazine, that ….

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life..

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspec….

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through..

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it..