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

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.

I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

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.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.