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.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

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

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

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.