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" With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself. "

" It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines. "

" I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. "

" I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

Autobiographical

" 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. "

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

Black And White

" 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. "

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

" I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day. "

" 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. "

" 'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie. "