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

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

" Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not. "

" 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. "

" I'm happy to keep making Disney movies. "

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

" 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 love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity. "

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

" We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone. "

" If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking. "

" I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it. "

" I'm sentimental to a fault. "

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

" I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand. "

" I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it. "

" With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time. "

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

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

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

" 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. "