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

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

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

" My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes. "

" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "

Black-And-White

" As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket. "

" How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. "

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

" I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life. "

" When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. "

" I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. "

" 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. "

" It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. "

" I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager. "

" 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. "

" When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy. "

" I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior. "

" '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. "

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

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

Autobiographical