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" 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. "

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" I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't. "

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

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

" I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

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

" Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people. "

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

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

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

" I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. "

" 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 like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket. "

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

" 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. "

" When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it. "

" 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. "

" We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people. "

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "

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

" 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. "