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• ‟ It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

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• ‟ The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

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• ‟ I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

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• ‟ I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

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• ‟ I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

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