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

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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.

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

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There is an isolated experience to being a director. It’s very communal because there’s a crew, but it’s only you. You’re the one on the hook.

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Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: ‘I’m gonna make that movie.’

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

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

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I always viewed life as material for a movie.

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Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

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

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

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To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of ‘The Squid And The Whale.’ But I think that’s par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

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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.

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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.

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I don’t agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

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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.

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‘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.

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

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

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

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

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A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

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

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Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

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Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

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

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

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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it’s your friend.

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I’ve had times in my life when I really haven‘t been able to figure myself out.

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When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don’t actually know what it’s going to be, but I’m still striving to get to some place with it.

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I thought at the time of my parents‘ divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

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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.

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I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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Even fairly serious moviegoers can’t shake this shadow of the corporate world.

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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.

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It’s always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.’

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My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn’t diminish ‘The Jerk.’ If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

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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.

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