"He's not really fully formed. They grow. They teach me who they are."

"I think about my movies all the time. It's like a disease."

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."

"The good thing about being a writer is you can make up anything you want."

"Once the movie gets going, once the lights go down, you become a collective. There's you by yourself, but then there's all of you together. And then you start appreciating the movie in that way."