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

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

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.

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

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

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