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" When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room. "

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" There's something very satisfying about old cameras because they're ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, 'Oh, this is how we make photographs,' it's an ingenious thing, but it feels like it's in a way a layman can appreciate, whereas a digital camera, I don't even begin to know what goes into making a digital camera. "

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" I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face. "

" I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter. "

" Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are. "

" I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write. "

" The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them. "

" In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him. "

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" Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator. "

" Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat. "

" There's a style in modern dance right now called Release Technique. It's based on a feeling of falling and catching yourself, and I thought it was such a good metaphor for the way life feels. "

" I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. "

" I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of the younger company, which was called Touch of Style. And it was amazing. It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina. "

" I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again. "

" I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition. "

" The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers. "

" From Noah Baumbach, I learned to have a strict no cell phone policy on set. There is nothing that bums you out more than looking over and seeing somebody on their smartphone, and that goes for actors and everyone else. "

" There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life. "

" When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption. "

" I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it. "

" I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right. "

" I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. "

" When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all. "

" Specifically with directors I'd worked with, and even some that I haven't, they were all incredibly generous with me, having really long conversations about what they felt was useful as tips. "

" The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes. "

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" 'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.' "

" There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful. "

" I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job. "

" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "

" I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist. "

" I love movies, so getting to be in the conversation and meet some of my heroes has been so fun. It's just the most fun thing ever. "