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I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.