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" There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great. "

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" 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 find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook. "

" To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real. "

" 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 don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always viewed life as material for a movie. "

" 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 still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal. "

Autobiographical

" 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.' "

" A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV. "

Black-And-White

" 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 always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Black And White

" 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. "

" There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it. "

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

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

" I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said. "

" I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. "