You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

I think everyone is always asking themselves, How is my work meaningful, how is my life meaningful? As I get older, I feel like who I am as a person and a citizen is more important than who I am in my work. But I do think it reframed slightly for me, how much I have to care about a project in order to want to do it. Sometimes, obviously, you have a take a job for money. But I think I'm quicker now when I get a script that's, say, borderline misogynist, I'm not going to go in for it. I'm thinking more about what I'm putting into the world.