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It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

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When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

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It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.