I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.