I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.