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" I like naps. I don't drink coffee. "

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" Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. "

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

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" I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me. "

" I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing. "

" If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?' "

" I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up. "

" I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. "

" I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me. "

" I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. "

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" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "