My Parents Taught Me To Believe That

Don’t Get Depressed About Not Being Where You Want To Be. This Nagging Feeling Of Anxiety Is Actually Called Ambition. Ambition Is Your Friend.

I Think In The '80s, When I Started Making Films, We Were All Suspicious Of These Technologies. We Were All Convinced They Would Filter Out Any Emotion And Sense Of Intimacy, And The Films I Made During That Period Reflected That. In Fact, What Has Happened Is The Opposite. I Think We're Saturated With A Degree Of Intimacy We Would Never Have Expected, And We're Trying To Sort Through This Idea Of Complete Access To Each Other's Lives On An Ongoing Basis. Our Emotions Aren't Filtered Out At All. They're Actually Accelerated.

Though I Am Still Very Vulnerable To Audiences—and It Happens All The Time - Where For Some Reason The Energy Doesn’t Connect And, Since The Film Is Very Personal, Obviously I Am Made To Feel Very Vulnerable By That.

The Directing Process Is Often A Continuation Of The Writing. This Is Just A Different Skill-set.

One Of The Huge Advantages Of Shooting In The Winter Is That Locations That Wouldn't Have Been Available To Us Suddenly Were, Like Yorkville. ... It's Just Specific Streets And Specific Angles. I Think That's What's Always Kind Of Shocking About Some Cities: They Are Really About Intersections.