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

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

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.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.