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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

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.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

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

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

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...

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

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 way of being a real human being.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

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 like actors - I used to be one.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how...

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

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

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 enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've...

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

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