There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But all of that is in pursuit of similar things, and I think that we kind of recognize that in each other.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication. It's better to just be honest, even if it's painful.

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.