I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people.

Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.