I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

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.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

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.