The end is built into the beginning.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.

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

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

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

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.