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

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" 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. "

" There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook. "

" 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. "

" I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day. "

" It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum. "

" 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's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be. "

" 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. "

" I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist. "

" 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 used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all. "

" 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. "

" It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you. "

" Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies. "

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

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

" '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. "

" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

" I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket. "

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

" I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines. "

" 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. "

" I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me. "

" I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.' "

" I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "