I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.