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" If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself. "

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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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" 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. "

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" The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.' "

" 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. "

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

" Our subjectivity is so completely our own. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. "

" When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world. "

" 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? "

" Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos. "

" Chris Cooper I got to work with many times. "

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" Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. "

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

" 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. "