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

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" 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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.' "

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

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

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