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.

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

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

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

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.