I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.