I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

My first love will always be movies.

Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.

I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.

I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or not which is for Amazon.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about. It's been a privilege.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.