People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.