Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems – as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn’t seem that scary.
I’m trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
I can never watch anything I’ve been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what’s been cut out and changed. I just know it.
There’s theater in life, obviously, and there’s life in theater.
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it’s nothing like that at all. It’s a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you’re filling in spaces.
I think generally I’m kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone’s head, that being all they really know of the world.
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 can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.
She was nice. Nice is good.
I have a lot of health anxiety.
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 actually think I’m probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don’t have to make when you’re writing.
I graduated from college in 1980.
And then to see the whole movie, you’re pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That’s an unusual way to work.
I think I’ve had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
I don’t think screenwriting is therapeutic. It’s actually really, really hard for me. It’s not an enjoyable process.
The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can’t shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it’s such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.
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 from my friends and see with my relatives.