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 always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

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

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.