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" I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people. "

" 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 think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. "

" I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said. "

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

Autobiographical

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really. "

" 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

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

" 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'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. "