I'm Trying To Tell A Story And

When I'm Writing A Script, Before I Can Write Dialogue Or Anything, I Have Two Or Three Hundred Pages Of Notes, Which Takes Me A Year. So, It's Not Like "what Happens Next." I've Got Things That I'm Thinking About But I Don't Settle On Them. And If I Try To Write Dialogue Before Then, I Can't. It's Just Garbage.

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.

People Ask Me All The Time, "what Are Your Influences? Are You Trying To Do Beckett?" It's Like, "no, I'm Trying To Do Me." Whatever That Is. I Don't Know What That Is, But That's The Basis. I'm Trying To Be True And I'm Trying To Be Honest.

There Are So Many People Who Are Making Movies Now Who Can’t Get Any Kind Of Distribution, So The Market Seems Like It’s Flooded.

I Try When I'm Writing To Leave Enough "space" For People To Have Their Own Interpretation, And Not To Direct It Toward One Conclusion. Then The Audience Would Not Be Reacting, Because They Are Being Preached To Or Lectured At. I Don't Have That Much To Say That I Think People Should Listen To Me.