You Are What You Love. Not What

I Can Never Watch Anything I've Been Involved In, Because I Know It, And I Know What The Making Of It Was Like, And I Know What's Been Cut Out And Changed. I Just Know It.

Sand Is Overrated. It's Just Tiny Little Rocks.

If I Were Doing Somebody Else's Script Or I Adapted A Book By Philip Roth, On Set There Could Be A Million Different Interpretations Of The Material And People Could Argue With Me. Certainly On Synecdoche, New York We Had Discussions And Arguments, But I Felt Like I Had Authority Because I'm A Writer.

I'm Not Working On Anything. I Was Trying To Write Something New . . . I Guess The Goal For Me Now, At Least At This Point, Is To Try To Direct Again.

I Think If I've Worked Anything Through With Screenwriting It's That I'm Not Going To Be Able To Work Anything Through.