I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

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.

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.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.