I Graduated From College In 1980.

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.

You're Dealing With The Body, And You're Dealing With Bodily Functions. We Romanticize Everything About People In Movies.

The Way I Write Is Very Much Without Kind Of A Goal. I Have Something I'm Interested In And Then I Decide I'm Going To Explore It. I Don't Know Where The Characters Are Going To Go, I Don't Know What The Movie Is Going To Do Or What The Screenplay Is Going To Do. For Me, That's The Way To Keep It Alive.

We're All One Thing, Like Cells In A Body. 'cept We Can't See The Body. The Way Fish Can't See The Ocean. And So We Envy Each Other. Hurt Each Other. Hate Each Other. How Silly Is That? A Heart Cell Hating A Lung Cell.

Failure Is A Badge Of Honor. It Means You Risked Failure. And If You Don’t Risk Failure, You’re Never Going To Do Anything That’s Different From What You’ve Already Done Or What Somebody Else Has Done.