I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.
It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
