I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.
I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
There's no shortage of material in life.
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.
For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
To write about a place, you have to live there.
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?
I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.
I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.
I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.
