I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

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 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 start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

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.