Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.