And As A Filmmaker, I'm Trying To

I Find Myself Going Out Less And Less. When You're 22 And See Older People Start To Do That, It's Depressing, But Once You Hit 30, You Think, 'wow, I've Been Working All Week - It Might Be Really Nice To Stay In!

We're Like A Gardener With A Hose And Our Attention Is Water - We Can Water Flowers Or We Can Water Weeds.

The Reflexive Allergy To L.a. That A Lot Of New Yorkers Have, I Feel Like It's Kind Of Nonsense.

I Know Not Everyone Starts Out Reading High Literature. If You Read Enough You Might Be Drawn To Some Other Things, So Maybe Those Vampire Books Are What They Call 'gateway Books.' I Just Coined That Term. I Don't Know If There's A Thing Called 'gateway Books.

An Obsessive Attention To The News, I've Realized, Only Serves To Paint A Picture Of The World As A Throbbing Blob Of Dysfunction, Most News Falling Somewhere On A Scale From Disappointing To Calamitous.