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" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

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" I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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

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" Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Black And White

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