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

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.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't "Citizen Kane" right out of the box, you know? It wasn't "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

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.