We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

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.

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

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

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