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" I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. "

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

" 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. "

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

Autobiographical

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

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

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

" I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. "

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

" 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. "

" I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. "

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

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

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