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.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

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.

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

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

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