Joe Swanberg Quotes
Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.
There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.
My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.
In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.
I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.
The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.
I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.
I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.
My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.
If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.
There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.
Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.
