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It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
When I go to movies and I love the movie, it’s because it feels like it articulated something about how we’re living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.
A lot of times, we’re just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it’s not so good.
I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
I learned a lesson which I didn’t heed: Don’t put yourself in your movies. It’s too much.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it’s the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
But, yeah, I’m really happy when I’m writing. When I’m being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, ‘Oh, this would be great in this script.’ Your antenna’s out in a different way, and I love that time.
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you’re at and you’ll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.