I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing h….

I just thought that was so interesting, that people that deal with bodies on a much more corporeal level, like the attendants, had a whole different ….

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," a….

In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 ye….

Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you can't do it as well..

I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just pr….

Writing is so... I don't know, it's such a practice, and I feel very unpracticed in it, because I'm not doing it every day. And I really need to do i….

I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then….

After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm flabby, and I have to start arriving at the desk….

Focus group was helpful in the way it always is when you make movies, especially with anything funny. You can find the right edit or the right beat. ….

I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own flavor, because everybody's so com….

Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many Diane Arbus scripts. Many. I don't ….

Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money, stuff like that. I….

That's what all these studios do: They recruit people who've seen certain films. It's this weird, fake science-y thing the studios call a "tool." Tha….

Obviously, once you're finished, you're like, "Okay, I have to make this a movie now, and I need people - bodies to play these parts, and actors to b….