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

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" 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. "

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

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

Autobiographical

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

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

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

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

" I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

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

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

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

" I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "