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

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

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" I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum. "

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

" I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Autobiographical

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist. "

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

Black And White

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