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" I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school. "

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" Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way. "

" I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything. "

" When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. "

" I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way. "

" I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.' "

" I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry. "

" Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting. "

" It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema. "

" I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene. "

" I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director. "

" I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night. "

" I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be. "

" I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition. "

" When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface. "

" Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches. "

" Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory. "

" When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible. "

" I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars. "

" Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress. "

" When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules. "

" I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do. "

" I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty. "

" I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away. "

" Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking. "

" I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer. "

" I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. "

" If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light. "

" What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters. "