"I do idiosyncratic dramedies."
"You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with."
"As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling."
"My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something."
"Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness."
"I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!"
"I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep."
"You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives."
"From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts."
"I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change."
