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I Have A Lot Of Anxiety About Medical Things For Example. I Don't Think I'm Particularly Good At It, But I'd Had The Practice When I Went Into Shooting Synecdoche. It Can Be Somewhat Gratifying, Too, Because I Don't Have That Relationship With Other Adults Where I Need To Comfort Them Or They Come To Me For That.

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 Think There Are Things That Aren't Represented In Movies That Are A Big Part Of Everyone's Life. We Romanticize Everything About People In Movies. One Of The Things I Don't Like In Movies Is That People Feel Alone With Their Bodily Functions In The Real World, As If People In The Movies Don't Do These Things.

The Conventional Wisdom Is - People Say This All The Time - You Should Only Write Something When You're Far Enough Away From It That You Can Have A Perspective. But That's Not True. That's A Story That You're Telling. The Truth Of It Is Here, Right Now. It's The Only Truth That We Ever Know. And I'm Interested In That Truth And The Confusion Being Part Of The Experience And Sorting It Your Way Through And Figuring It Out.

Clementine: This Is It, Joel. It's Going To Be Gone Soon. Joel: I Know. Clementine: What Do We Do? Joel: Enjoy It.