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" I am better at math than spelling. "

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" I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated. "

" I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie. "

" I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. "

" When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. "

" There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers. "

" When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me. "

" The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first. "

" 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. "

" I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring. "

" If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included. "

" Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life. "

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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. "

" I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. "

" I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot. "

" 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. "

" Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again. "

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

" Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums. "

" You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' "