I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it