What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human..

I do think things like old furniture and art are arbitrarily assigned. And I say that coming from an uneducated place in terms of, you know... art...….

The pieces of "Please Give" just did fit together. I'm very comfortable with the ensemble. I thought this was just going to be a movie about this gir….

I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. ….

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever..

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone, everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vu….

Hollywood always likes to create a star..

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there..

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together..

The movie is in my head and that's the movie. But I'd be crazy to not be flexible. I think because I have the movie in my head, I can be flexible. I ….

My idea of no makeup on actors is really no makeup. I mean, they can be wearing makeup. I don't care what they're wearing as long as it looks like th….

I don't know where my next movie is going to get financed or if it will. I think every filmmaker is probably worried about that, unless their movie m….

It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. ….

I know I repeat myself in all my movies, but I just let it go, let it happen. Clearly, I'm not finished with that issue. But they seem to me like com….

I want the look of a movie to be secondary. I really want people to be engaged in the story and the characters and not think about a style or think a….

You can't take your stuff with you when you die. That doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it while you're alive. Why not? But it's all pretty silly. I f….

What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know wh….

I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your….

If anything, I learned most from being a huge fan of his and watching movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again - that influenced the ….

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems..

I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world betwe….