I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

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

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.