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

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.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

You don't need love and sex in films

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.