To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.

I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.