If I’m feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone’s thing.

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

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.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

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.

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

I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.