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" 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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" As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much. "

" Be willing to get fired for a good idea. "

" The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. "

" 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. "

" The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected. "

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" I just want to be who I am, as I am. "

" Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.' "

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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 love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves. "

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" Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. "

" I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about. "

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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. "

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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. "