I only work with people I trust and respect.

I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if I moved too far from my own experience, and my own established identity, I would be criticized for taking even more of those wedding pies from others.

For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.