Women are complicated. We all know that.
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS. . . . is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who they are or are indifferent about their life in general, which is how I felt about myself when I wrote it. I had turned 40 and I was unhappy and I wanted to write about that. Dating just became the framework. . . . I like all those fringy, weird, nonverbal, quiet, tiny little things, those powerful interchanges between people, things that go unsaid, that people know are happening all the time but nobody wants to talk about. That's what I want to make movies about.
Making "bad people" seem human is the key to making them really scary.
Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. . . all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. . . they're the songs that last through time.
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.