"One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them."

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"One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them."

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"A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same."

Beginning

"Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge."

Survival

"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."

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"Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original."

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"Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good."

People

"The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things."

Fun

"In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them."

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"It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby."

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"I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me."

Work