I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.
I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.
When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.
I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.
I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.
Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.
'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.