I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends….

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their pat….

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. I….

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agree….

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. I….

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic..

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects..

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused..

I'm interested in music as an extension of character..

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy..

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines..

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook..

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody..

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate..

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, a….

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the sce….

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to b….

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it..

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me..

Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them..

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it.….