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

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

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. "

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

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

" We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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 think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over. "

" As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. "

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

Black And White

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

" I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function. "