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

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.

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.

As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

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 like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.