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" Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people. "

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

" I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over. "

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

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

" Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. "

" I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time. "

" 'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie. "

" As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. "

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

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

" Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. "

" There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me. "

" That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. "

" 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 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 don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable. "

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

" I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me. "

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

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

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

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

" I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't. "

" I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist. "

" I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people. "

" I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. "