Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

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've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud of.

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

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.