I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.