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

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" I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree. "

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Autobiographical

" I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' "

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

" I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with. "

" I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. "

" 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. "

" I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. "

" I always viewed life as material for a movie. "

" I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said. "

" Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies. "

" It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. "

" I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it. "

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

" I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really. "

" 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. "

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

" How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. "

" I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend. "

" Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world. "

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

Black-And-White

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

" 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.' "

" I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over. "