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" I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.' "

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" I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things. "

" We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium. "

" When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000. "

" I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really. "

" If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it. "

" I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie. "

" The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side. "

" When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him. "

" My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre. "

" I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again. "

" Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium. "

" When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that. "

" I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic. "

" I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent. "

" I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels. "

" Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision. "

" I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make. "

" I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences. "

" Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up. "

" The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating. "

" When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me. "

" I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious. "

" There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around. "

" There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better. "

" Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus. "

" Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended. "

" I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011. "

" One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever. "

" Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase. "

" I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope. "