We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.