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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

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

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

My stories are never quite good enough.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.