When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
From Noah Baumbach
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.
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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.
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
'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.
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.
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