Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

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

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

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

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've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.