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

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

Autobiographical

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

" I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook. "

" I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing. "

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

" A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that. "

" 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. "

" To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments. "

" Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. "

" 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 suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it. "

" 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. "

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

" The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin. "

" Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world. "

" 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.' "

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

Black-And-White

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

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

" Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. "

" '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. "

" I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself. "

" Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. "

" 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. "

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