I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

You just have to fight your way through.