Max Winkler quotes:

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 therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.

I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.

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

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 direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

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.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

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.