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

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" I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning. "

" 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 love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working. "

" 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 knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress. "

" 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. "

" Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator. "

" 'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.' "

" I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.' "

" I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. "

" 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. "

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

" The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns. "

" I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition. "

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" I think it's true of a lot of teenagers that you're convinced that life is happening somewhere else. "

" I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you're 16, there are qualities you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; otherwise, I'd be living less vividly.' "

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" When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all. "

" I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us. "

" I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that. "

" 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. "

" I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's not theirs. It's their parents'. So to feel quite good about yourself because you've got the fancy house and car doesn't make any sense - you didn't earn any of that. "

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