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" I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. "

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" I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time. "

" I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends. "

" Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them. "

" 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. "

" One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college. "

" I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie. "

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

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

" David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me. "

" I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations. "

" 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 make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres. "

" At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line. "

" 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. "

" I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them. "

" 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. "

" I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them. "

" I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies. "

" When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there. "

" The only part of 'A Ghost Story' that was reactionary was a temporal one. I had spent so much time making 'Pete's Dragon' that I was really impatient and excited to make something new. When this project presented itself, I was ready to jump right into it. I started shooting two days after 'Pete's Dragon.' "

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

" I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them. "

" The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old. "

" I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop. "

" I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. "

" Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. "