I Think If I've Worked Anything Through

I Choose To Write Characters From The Inside Because I Feel Like That's The Way I'm Gonna Get The Most Honest Version Of Them.

I Often Have A Theme In Mind When I'm Starting. I Know That I Want Everything To Be In A World Of, Say, Evolution, Or Guilt.

There Are Nearly Thirteen Million People In The World. None Of Those People Is An Extra. They're All The Leads Of Their Own Stories. They Have To Be Given Their Due.

I Think Now That I've Tried Directing, I'm Not Interested In Doing Adaptations Anymore. I Could Do An Adaptation Of Someone Else's Work That I Would Write, But The Idea Of Taking Someone Else's Material Entirely Doesn't Interest Me. One Of The Things That I Found Really Helpful, At Least In My Mind - And I've Never Discussed This With The Actors Or With The People I Work With - Is That Being A Neophyte In Directing, I Feel Like I Have A Kind Of Authority Simply Because I'm The Writer As Well.

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.