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

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" It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so. "

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

" I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do. "

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

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

" 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 certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B. "

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

" 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 have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well. "

" I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version. "

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

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

" In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection. "

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

" 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. "

" Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes. "

" 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. "

" There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience. "

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

" 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. "

" The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet. "

" 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. "