I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.