"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

He loved me. He loves me not.

I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel very fortunate that - y'know, this movie [Don Jon] - frame for frame, line for line - is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nobody made me change anything.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."