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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.