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

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" 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'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people. "

" 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. "

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

Black And White

" I'm interested in music as an extension of character. "

" 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 are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. "

" 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. "

" Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. "

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

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

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

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

Autobiographical

" I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

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

" I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. "

" I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper. "

" You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. "

" Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work. "

Working Together

" I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy. "

" 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. "