Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

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

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.