I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

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

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

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

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.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.