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

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

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

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

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.

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

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