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" Nobody knows what you have in you until you've done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it will all come out in the wash. "

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" Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat. "

" I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning. "

" Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. "

" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "

" There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck. "

" The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers. "

" Specifically with directors I'd worked with, and even some that I haven't, they were all incredibly generous with me, having really long conversations about what they felt was useful as tips. "

" I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right. "

" I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean. "

" I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you're 16, there are qualities you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; otherwise, I'd be living less vividly.' "

" There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life. "

" From Noah Baumbach, I learned to have a strict no cell phone policy on set. There is nothing that bums you out more than looking over and seeing somebody on their smartphone, and that goes for actors and everyone else. "

" When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all. "

" I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth. "

" From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day. "

" Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down. "

" I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at. "

" I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is. "

" Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are. "

" I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about. "

" I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot. "

" When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that. "

" I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them. "

" I loved dance. "

" I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection. "

" One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them. "

" I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing. "

" I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us. "

" I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love. "