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I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.