I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.

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

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

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

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.