Meet Me In Montauk.

We Try To Organize The World, Which Isn't Organized The Way Our Brains Want To Organize It. We Tell Stories About The People In Our Lives, We Project Ideas Onto Them. We Project Relationships With People, We Make Our Lives Into Stories. I Don't Think We Can Avoid Doing That.

Every Day Of Your Life, You Have Information That Enters Your Head, And That Information Informs Your Understanding Of Things, Or Shifts It, Or Changes It, Or Deepens It, Or Confuses You. Every Day, Every Moment Of Every Day - It's Like This Thing That Happens.

I Can Talk Endlessly About Characters, Or Why Someone Did This Or That, And What That Dynamic And Interaction Is. I Really Love It, And I Think That Actors Really Respond Positively To The Fact That I Like To Talk About That Stuff, Because I'm Not Sure That All Directors Do.

I Spend A Lot Of Time In Preproduction Working With Authors, And A Lot Of Time In Postproduction.: Editing, Music, All That Sort Of Stuff. Casting. On The Set There's Not A Lot For Me To Do.

I'm Jewish, And My Family Is Jewish. I Was Very Interested In Woody Allen When I Was Growing Up, But I Don't Think Of Myself As A Jewish Writer. I'm More From Suburbia, American Suburbia. I'm More From The '70s Than I Am From Judaism.