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

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" It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials. "

" It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system. "

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

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

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

" 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 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.' "

" When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right. "

" 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. "

" I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it. "

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

" 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. "

" Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. "

" I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy. "

" Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more. "

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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