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

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" 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.' "

" Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit. "

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

" I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism. "

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

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

" I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life. "

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

" My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. "

" 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. "

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" A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in. "

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" 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. "

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