I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

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

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

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

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.