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" I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right. "

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" Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make films. I felt that I understood his films, and I love them so much. When you're starting out, certainly, you have this sense of wanting to talk back to people who have influenced you, and I always wanted to talk back to Woody Allen. "

" The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes. "

" I'm interested in long careers where you take detours. "

" I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face. "

" I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great. "

" I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It's amazing how much people support each other. "

" Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema. "

" I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. "

" Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down. "

" As an actor, I just go off the director. I never ask how big the part is. I don't look at it from the perspective of, 'Is this going to be good for my career?' I just look for directors, and I think part of that is I knew I always wanted to be a director. "

" I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection. "

" When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that. "

" I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar. "

" I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it was given a lot of time. I hate it when I watch movies, and it seems like they just went and picked a font and, like, called it a day. "

" We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside. "

" When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room. "

" I was a massive Whit Stillman fan. Groupie. I would have done anything for him. "

" I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why. "

" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "

" In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him. "

" There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter. "

" I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about. "

" I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel appreciative of the gifts you have until you're gone. "

" Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. "

" Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are. "

" There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck. "

" I've never worked on anything that I haven't in some way enjoyed. "

" I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the right guy' or 'Will he find her?' The question should be, 'Is she going to occupy her personhood?' Because I think we're very unused to seeing female characters, particularly young female characters, as people. "

" The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers. "

" Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat. "