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

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

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