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" I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes. "
Spike Jonze
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" I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman. "
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" Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment. "
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" You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally. "
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" 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'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. "
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" When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker. "
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" I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated. "
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" When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. "
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" I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. "
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" I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships. "
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" I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. "
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" I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters. "
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" Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. "
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" The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.' "
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" I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it. "
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" I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. "
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" I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot. "
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" A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. "
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" There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.' "
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" I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out. "
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" Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.' "
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" We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize. "
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" Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book? "
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" I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. "
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