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

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" There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny. "

" Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 always viewed life as material for a movie. "

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

" 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. "

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