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" I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct. "

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" I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it. "

" Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy. "

" With 'Pete's Dragon,' Disney was very excited about the movie I wanted to make; they were very supportive of it, and it was a smooth process. I was really surprised by that. "

" I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in 'Pete's Dragon,' I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue. "

" One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day. "

" I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing. "

" I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault. "

" 'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make. "

" I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons. "

" The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?' "

" Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures. "

" I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look. "

" So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with. "

" I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic. "

" I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me. "

" I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life. "

" The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity. "

" I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way. "

" I love the Spanish language. "

" I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset. "

" The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image. "

" Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. "

" In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang ideas off of. "

" I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me. "

" I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore. "

" I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production. "

" When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult. "

" You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible. "