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

...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

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

The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.