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

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

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

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

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

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.