I think I'm pretty committed to staying. I'm not committed to not doing big movies, but I am committed to continuing to make smaller movies, not for the sake of making smaller movies, but because I think it's really invigorating to just go work with people and know that it might be awful.

I'm interested in the feeling of getting to zero after a play, like you're never going to do it again. That's a really scary feeling.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You don't need love and sex in films

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.

It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time in order to get an immersive experience. That's the best way to make art. It's almost like you have to treat it like you're going into a submarine, and Noah Baumbach totally agrees with that. There's not a real other life that happens outside of the movie while it's being shot, which I like.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.