I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny little rocks.
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can’t find them. I’m not very organized.
I like actors – I used to be one.
I try to present something that is true so I don’t further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It’s a very bad idea, and there’s a lot of angry people in the world. And it’s weird to absorb all that weirdness.
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 else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.
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 actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I’m not sure that all directors do.
I really don’t have any solutions and I don’t like movies that do.
I wanted to deal with someone’s idea of their relationship.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
I like titles that are a little difficult, because it’s kind of counterintuitive.
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 so meaningless. My characters don’t learn to love each other or themselves.
I don’t subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.
I don’t write genre stuff in any form. I’m not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
I think if I’ve worked anything through with screenwriting it’s that I’m not going to be able to work anything through.
As a kid, I had a background in theater.
There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.