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" A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. "
Spike Jonze
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" I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood. "
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" I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman. "
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" I just want to be who I am, as I am. "
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" I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. "
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" You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. "
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" Our subjectivity is so completely our own. "
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" I like naps. I don't drink coffee. "
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" Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. "
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" I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is. "
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" I like Kanye, and I care about him. "
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" I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. "
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" Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment. "
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" I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. "
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" Writing is hard. "
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" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "
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" If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included. "
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" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. "
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" Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world. "
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" I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships. "
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" There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting. "
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" I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring. "
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" If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. "
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" The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches. "
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" Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. "
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" I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. "
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" After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things. "
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" Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really. "
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" I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older. "
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