Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.