Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there’s no reason for how it’s starting.

It’s near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

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 suppose some studio executive would say it’s death for a comedy if people aren’t all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can’t control it.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it’s your friend.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn’t know it was happening until it was over.