Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything." We're all kind of in our own narratives.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in."

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.