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.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

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 live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

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.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.