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

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

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

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

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

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.