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

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

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

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

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 think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.