It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there.

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

When you're a man, you're often in situations where you have to decide how far you're going to go in an argument. How big is the other guy? All this stuff that girls don't have to worry about as much, because that's not part of the equation.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.