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

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

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 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.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

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

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Don't worry, I won't bite. At least not in the way you're afraid of.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.