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.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

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

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

I trust my judgment when I think it's boring, dull, tepid and not interesting. That's important to listen to. And the same on the set. That's a little easier because you can see it in front of you and you can just see how great they are and you know you have something wonderful when they do something wonderful.

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.