I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what the limitations are.

I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of America. Then the obvious fact that it's pre-Internet, pre-cell phone. Everyone I think thinks their youth is a more innocent time. I just don't know.

Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.

My first love will always be movies.

I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the suburbs are not so wonderful, so my movies tend to be a little melancholy.