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" 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?' "

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" 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. "

" I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other. "

" 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. "

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

" I like Kanye, and I care about him. "

" 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. "

" Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again. "

" There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now. "

" 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. "

" Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. "

" What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie. "

" 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? "

" You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in. "

" You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' "

" I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label. "

" I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up. "

" 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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" I like naps. I don't drink coffee. "

" 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 everything I make is personal to me. "

" I just want to be who I am, as I am. "

" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "

" I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. "