Max winkler

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her...

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T....

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you...

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is...

I feel like there's a witch hunt by some film sites and people that immediately disregard something if it shows any sort of influence.

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.