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

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

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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.