I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

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