I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.