Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

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

You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown on your own resources, which may be limited, and you're really in a fix. So I think that's authentic to the experience that it might be very lonely.

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

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.

There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.