Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.