It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

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

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

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

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.

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