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" I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone. "

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

" Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums. "

" 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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" Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing is hard. "

" 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'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. "

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

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