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" Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people. "

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" To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real. "

" Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world. "

" I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all. "

" Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology. "

" I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. "

" I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself. "

" I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. "

" My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes. "

" With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there. "

" A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that. "

" Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments. "

" I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function. "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

" You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. "

" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "

Black-And-White

" I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects. "

" It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. "

" We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people. "

" I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there. "

" Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work. "

Working Together

" I'm interested in music as an extension of character. "

" I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper. "

" Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.' "

" When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet. "

" I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life. "

" I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook. "

" I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing. "

" I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. "

" There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great. "

" I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. "