And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.