I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

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

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 grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.