There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

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

We are so vocal about what we hate.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.