I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

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

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

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

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials