As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.