I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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

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.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.