When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room.
I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great.
I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.
I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it was given a lot of time. I hate it when I watch movies, and it seems like they just went and picked a font and, like, called it a day.
I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.
I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.
There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter.
When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.
I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why.
I feel like a good pair of diamond studs goes a long way. They make everything look dressy, and you just seem more put together.
Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.
I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.'
I've never worked on anything that I haven't in some way enjoyed.
I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.
I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible.
I was a massive Whit Stillman fan. Groupie. I would have done anything for him.
It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.
I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.
