I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.