CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. JOEL: I know. CLEMENTINE: What do we do? JOEL: Enjoy it.
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
