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

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.

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.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

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.'

I always viewed life as material for a movie.