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" Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them. "

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

" My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes. "

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

" 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'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people. "

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

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

Black-And-White

" 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 thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager. "

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

" How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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'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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people. "

" I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy. "