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" I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end. "

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" If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. "

" I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered. "

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" Is it possible that there are no coincidences? "

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" I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good. "

" If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea. "

" There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again. "

" I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am. "

" Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money. "

" When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope. "

" I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention. "

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" My biggest fear in life is to be average. "

" Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive. "

" Are you in my dream too? "

" I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am. "

" For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. "

" So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other. "

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" Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. "

" 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil. "

" The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. "

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" I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. "

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" That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves. "

" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "

" My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. "

" When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe. "

" When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. "

" Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. "

" There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone. "

" I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. "