I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times..

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you….

I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, b….

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the c….

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble..

I trust my judgment when I think it's boring, dull, tepid and not interesting. That's important to listen to. And the same on the set. That's a littl….

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failin….

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish..

Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical power. At some point, you'll say, "L….

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the room, you can draw them outside into the ….

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because….

It's not a character flaw to become an adult..

I like to let the actors work the way they want to..

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium..

I think the more dangerous and dire the political circumstances seem, the more you attach value to anything that shows you why a human being is a hum….

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings ….

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. ….

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic..

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies..

The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa….

I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and….