There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

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 don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

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.