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" The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns. "

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" I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched. "

" Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make films. I felt that I understood his films, and I love them so much. When you're starting out, certainly, you have this sense of wanting to talk back to people who have influenced you, and I always wanted to talk back to Woody Allen. "

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

" 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.' "

" Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside. "

" I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter. "

" I wouldn't call myself 'into the DJ scene.' I have friends who are DJs, like James Murphy. I was really into the DJ scene at his wedding. But generally, I'm not at the clubs. I've never been to a rave. "

" When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room. "

" 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'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar. "

" I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. "

" 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. "

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

" Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat. "

" One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel. "

" 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 lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great. "

" 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 think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel appreciative of the gifts you have until you're gone. "

" I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job. "

" It's really hard for me to be around people I admire. "

" I loved dance. "

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

" I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.' "

" 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 always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film. "