Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.