I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.