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 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.

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

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.