I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

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.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

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

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.