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" Truffaut loved Hitchcock. "

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

" That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. "

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

" 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. "

" I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with. "

" 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. "

" I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. "

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

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

" 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

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

" I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. "

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

Autobiographical

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world. "

" I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't. "

" 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 was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league. "

" 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 know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good. "

" 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. "

" 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'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. "

" 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. "

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

" When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet. "

" I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree. "

" I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate. "