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" When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time. "

" 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. "

" You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. "

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

Autobiographical

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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