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."

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.