The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

Truth in the human world, is constructed, defined and then reconstructed by the human self.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.