What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

People cant help how they look.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.