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

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

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.

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

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.

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