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

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

" Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there. "

" I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because, unfortunately, people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. "

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

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

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

" I'm interested in music as an extension of character. "

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

" I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over. "