It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.