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

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" I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. "

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

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

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

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

Black And White

" Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.' "

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

" I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable. "