But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

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

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

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

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

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