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.

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

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

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.