If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

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.

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.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

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

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