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" After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. "

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" There's a difference between stress and pressure. "

" I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other. "

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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. "

" I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters. "

" I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate. "

" I would love to make video games. "

" I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it. "

" If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?' "

" When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world. "

" The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself. "

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" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map. "

" As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. "

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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. "

" You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. "

" I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility. "

" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "

" Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. "

" I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. "

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" Writing is hard. "

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" Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. "