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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good. "

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

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

" I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal. "

Autobiographical

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

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

" 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 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 try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you. "

Procrastination

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "