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I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

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I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

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I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

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It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

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I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

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I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

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I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

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I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

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I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.

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If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 18th, 1983

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