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" I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do. "

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" I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made. "

" I just want to make whatever is exciting. "

" On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise. "

" 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. "

" I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. "

" I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is. "

" I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate. "

" I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. "

" I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past. "

" If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?' "

" The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first. "

" 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. "

" I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. "

" I wasn't a film kid. "

" As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy. "

" 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. "

" There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting. "

" The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected. "

" The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches. "

" I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already. "

" The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. "

" Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. "

" You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. "

" I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?' "

" 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. "

" On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments. "

" 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. "

" Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. "

" I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is. "

" If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included. "