I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

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

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

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

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.