Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

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

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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.

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

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.