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

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" 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 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. "

" The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook. "

" '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. "

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

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

" It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you. "

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

" I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league. "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

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

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

" A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that. "

" There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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