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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.