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

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" I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines. "

" I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. "

" We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that. "

" When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. "

" Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. "

" 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. "

" 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 thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager. "

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

" Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. "

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

" 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. "

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" I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day. "

" When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. "

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

" I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. "

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

" I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.' "

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

" I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy. "

" '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. "