I always viewed life as material for a movie.
I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good.
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket.
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.
I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.
I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.
Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't.
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.
It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.
Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
