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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Black And White

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me. "

" I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really. "

" 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. "

" Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend. "