I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and then I had the lucky accident of falling in love with film. I was 19 or 20 that I realized films are made by people. Shooting digitally became cheaper and better. You couldn't make something that looked like a Hollywood film, but you could make something through which you could work out ideas. I was acting, but I was also conceiving the plots and operating the camera when I wasn't onscreen. I got very unvain about film acting, and it became a sort of graduate school for me.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

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

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

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