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.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

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

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.