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" I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical. "
Spike Jonze
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" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map. "
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" 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. "
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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've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. "
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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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" 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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