If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was writing a sex scene between me and my adorable co-star [Adam Driver] in which he had to tell me how much he loved my potbelly. It seemed like a weird wish-fulfillment thing, where I'm directing my own fantasy.