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

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" As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. "

" I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it. "

" 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?' "

" 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'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction. "

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" I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. "

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

" Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. "

" 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. "

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

" Our subjectivity is so completely our own. "

" Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence? "

" Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. "

" After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. "

" I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me. "

" 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. "

" Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life. "

" If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go. "

" Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really. "

" Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me. "

" 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. "

" Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. "

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" Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't a film kid. "