Sometimes I Don't Like The Books That

The Conventional Wisdom Is - People Say This All The Time - You Should Only Write Something When You're Far Enough Away From It That You Can Have A Perspective. But That's Not True. That's A Story That You're Telling. The Truth Of It Is Here, Right Now. It's The Only Truth That We Ever Know. And I'm Interested In That Truth And The Confusion Being Part Of The Experience And Sorting It Your Way Through And Figuring It Out.

I Tend To Not Only Read Reviews, But Also Every Little Stupid Thing Online. It's A Very Bad Idea, And There's A Lot Of Angry People In The World. And It's Weird To Absorb All That Weirdness.

I Like For People To Figure Things Out For Themselves. It's Not Like I Have The Right Answer, But If I Have A Visceral Reaction To Something, I'm Sure That Other People Will, Too.

I Don't Subscribe To Anything. I Sit There And I Try To Think About What Seems Honest To Me.

When I'm Writing A Script, Before I Can Write Dialogue Or Anything, I Have Two Or Three Hundred Pages Of Notes, Which Takes Me A Year. So, It's Not Like "what Happens Next." I've Got Things That I'm Thinking About But I Don't Settle On Them. And If I Try To Write Dialogue Before Then, I Can't. It's Just Garbage.