I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better..

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over..

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….

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 ….

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

Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more th….

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….

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 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….

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

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 ….

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. ….

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 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 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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….