I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that’s it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they’re very young.
I don’t know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I’m hired to write something by “The Man,” or by a studio, for whatever reason, it’s really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.
People have always wanted to be recognized, and that’s human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word ‘season’ has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.
I’ve always been a writer, I’ve always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
I’ve never even seen a great set fight or a great set meltdown. I seem to always be on these incredibly relaxed sets.
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.
I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren’t even welcome on set during production.
Everybody knows that I’m not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.
Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can’t expose them to bright light or get them wet.
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It’s kind of like the indie music scene.
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.
There’s something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They’re inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.
To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.
I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
I didn’t even know how to talk to people, I didn’t know how to talk to the press. I was just a jester. And I still feel that way. But, I mean, what haven’t I learned? Everything that I know is new information because I was starting with nothing.
I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son’s school tuition in Los Angeles.
I don’t have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn’t call it ‘good.’ I can carry a tune.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.