The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites. " The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
[Macon Blair] wrote a beautiful - once it was kicking off and we were gonna make the movie - he sent me this really beautiful document on Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. It was like ruminations. "Maybe this. . . I don't know. . . " And I loved it.